Southern Painted Stretcher Base Tavern Table

Eastern North Carolina, circa 1800, yellow pine and mixed woods, three-board rectangular scrub top, shaped skirts, turned legs, flush stretcher base, base and skirt with old but later red paint, pegged mortise and tenon construction.

26 x 44.5 x 32.5 in.

Private Collection, Eastern North Carolina

Top with staining and shrinkage splitting at one board; old but later red paint; expected wear on stretchers; shrinkage cracks at upper legs by tenon joints.