Work Table
Unknown Artist
1800–1825
Medium
maple, brass hardware
Dimensions
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Classification
Furniture and woodwork
Department
Decorative Art and Design
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Miss Elizabeth Bartol
Accession Number
1981.75
About this artwork
Needlework typically occupied several hours of a well-to-do woman's day. Worktables are compact, lightweight, and therefore portable. Casters permitted one to move the table around a room and to reposition it easily for sewing or writing. The top drawer of this example was designed to hold writing equipment and contains a writing tablet that could be placed at a convenient slant. The second drawer is divided into compartments for sewing equipment. Needlework was stored in a bag below, accessible...