Primitive Mexican Work Table, Blue-Green Paint, Trestle Base, c.1900 View Watchlist >
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Lot # F1062
System ID # 29762497
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Primitive Mexican Work Table, Blue-Green Paint, Trestle Base, c.1900
A hand-built work table with a thick two-board plank top over a four-leg trestle base joined by double side stretchers and a central medial stretcher. The frame is assembled with through mortise-and-tenon joinery, tenon ends exposed and pegged — no metal at the load-bearing joints. The base carries layered remnants of blue-green paint over a cream-yellow ground, worn to bare wood along the high-contact edges; the top retains a scrubbed surface with old stains and honest use marks consistent with Mexican rural vernacular furniture of the late 19th to early 20th century. Wood species is consistent with Mexican white pine (Pinus ayacahuite or a related highland species), the dominant furniture wood of the Sierra Madre workshops that supplied northern Mexico.
CONDITION
Good overall with age-appropriate wear throughout. Scratches, scuffing, fading, and finish loss across top and base; painted legs and stretchers heavily abraded to bare wood. Sits with a slight tilt and mild wobble.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall: 27 1/4" H × 32 1/2" W × 21" D
- Construction: Through mortise-and-tenon, pegged tenons, no metal fasteners at joints
- Finish: Blue-green over cream-yellow paint, abraded to bare wood
- Wood: Consistent with Mexican white pine (Pinus ayacahuite or related highland species)
- Origin: Mexican vernacular, attributed — late 19th to early 20th century
