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| Figure 30 Dining table attributed to Peter Scott, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1722–1730. Mahogany with yellow pine and elm or hackberry. H. 28 3/4", W. 66 1/4", D. 71 1/4" (open). (Private collection; photo, Gavin Ashworth.) The table’s hinge rails are made of either elm or hackberry. These woods are seldom encountered in American furniture, but both were widely distributed through tidewater Virginia forests in the eighteenth century and both have many of the woodworking properties of oak. |