Original Boston Tea Tables

Whether they were built for decoration like the console tables of the.
Original boston tea tables. Violence scary images occasional. The boston tea party was a political and mercantile protest by the sons of liberty in boston massachusetts on december 16 1773. Key carved solid rosewood sofa table with scroll legs. Shop the tea tables in boston collection on chairish home of the best vintage and used furniture decor and art.
Elm chinese altar table in light honey color 42 wide. 12 and suggests the presence of imported items of this pattern in boston 27perhaps they inspired the boston maker to lay out his tabletops with similar rounded projections. Antique george ii mahogany tea table dating from around the 1750 s in very good original condition with a wonderful original color. These small square tables were stored out of the way and then moved to the center of the room when it was time for tea service.
Originally these tables were generally put out. Tea accent tables were used for tea presentation at a time when tea was an expensive commodity prior to the american revolution. The rusted blade raven son book 0 5. Discussing topics from books to tea to philosophy from one homeschooler to another.
In boston many had a plain circular top and were identified simply as round tea tables 26however one surviving boston object a small bottle stand at historic deerfield echoes the outline of the british tables fig. There are several differing styles. This large tea table was originally owned by merchant daniel barraud b 1725 of norfolk and later smithfield virginia. They are usually 27in in height 33in in length.
America used for holding tea trays or as side tables. It dawned on me that i haven t written a tea. Chippendale tea table 29 h. High gloss lacquer oriental coffee table with gold landscape.
The original post can be found here. Due to extraordinarily high volume of requests our responses may be delayed. The target was the tea act of may 10 1773 which allowed the british east india company to sell tea from china in american colonies without paying taxes apart from those imposed by the townshend acts american patriots strongly opposed the taxes in the townshend. Tables are sometimes treated like the poor cousins to chairs which have captured the imaginations of arts and crafts designers like the stickley brothers architects such as frank lloyd wright danish modern furniture guru hans wegner and mid century modernists charles and ray eames but tables deserve our respect too.
The table is attributed to norfolk because of its history and the similarity of its turned shaft to those found on a number of other tables and stands with norfolk associations.