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| Astragal-end Work Table | |
| American | |
| 1805–15 | |
| On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in | |
| Gallery 774 | |
| This astragal-end ladies sewing or worktable is distinguished by its tall, elegant, and finely reeded legs. The pleated silk bag, which held sewing fabric or needlework, is patterned after a design in plate 26 of Thomas Sheraton’s "The Cabinet- Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing-Book" (1794). | |
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