Wooden table from Cedar Grove plantation

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A wooden table used at Cedar Grove plantation in Edgefield County, South Carolina. The four-legged table is made of yellow pine. The table top consists of three (3) machine-milled boards finished with scrub plane on the underside and with a cabinetmaker's plane on the top side. The boards are joined with full-length tongue and groove joints, and the top is nailed to the apron. The four legs are a tapered square shape and are attached to the apron with a half-haunched offset split double mortise and tenon construction. The stretchers nailed around the outside of the legs are a later addition and are made from red oak.

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