STRETCHER TABLE
1735 – 1740
Ebenezer, Georgia
Sweetgum, yellow poplar, and yellow pine
HOA: 26", WOA: 32", DOA: 27 1/2"
MESDA Purchase Fund (acc. 2082)
James Edward Oglethorpe (1696 - 1785) saw the Georgia colony as a refuge for persecuted European Protestants. In 1734 a group of Salzberger refugees arrived in Georgia and founded the town of Ebenezer upriver from Savannah. The craftsmen of Ebenezer produced this table, the earliest piece of Georgia furniture known to survive. Its baroque turnings and Germanic splay-legged form reflect the training of its makers.
