Painted work table with hanging bag and casters.
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Overview

This maple Boston work table combined writing and sewing storage: a sloping writing tablet in the upper drawer, sewing compartments below and a pull-out needlework bag. Casters made it movable. Cleveland relates its landscape decoration, probably adapted from engravings, to techniques taught in New England girls' schools.

The account concerns affluent domestic needlework, rather than all women's lives. It records Elizabeth Howard Bartol as owner and donor; the maker is unrecorded.

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Maker unrecorded.

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    Cleveland Museum of Art online catalogue: Work Table (1981.75)

    Cleveland Museum of Art

    Undated online publication; manufacture date and record timestamps are separate.

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  1. Primary institutional object recordWork Table — Cleveland Museum of Art 1981.75Research access: 2026-10-21

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