Rustic American Farmhouse Butcher Block Work Table

Large 19th century American farmhouse table, work table, or harvest table. Featuring a rustic plank top 10 feet long. Supported by thick turne...

Substantial late 19th century American general store country farmhouse work table crafted from pine. The farm table features a 1.5" inch thick two...

Large, rustic 19th century Pennsylvania Dutch American farmhouse table, harvest table, or work table. Features a nearly 10 foot long plank top...

Rustic early 19th century country American farmhouse work table. Features a 1 inch thick pine plank top. Constructed with hand-made nails...

Country American rustic farmhouse dining table or harvest table featuring a cream colored painted pine base. The top is constructed using reclaimed pine barnwood with tongue in groove joinery and a natural finish. Old fence...

Fantastic 19th century French drapers table or store display table featuring 10 work drawers. This large table was used in cloth merchant shops for...

A heavily worn and distressed hand painted yellow faux wood grain farmhouse kitchen work table. Hand-crafted of solid wood, richly det...

This rustic work purpose table made in pine was found in the New Lebanon area of Upstate New York. Used only during hog butchering time, mostly in early fa...

Patina Perfection!! A rustic French farmhouse work table from the 19th century. Featuring hand-crafted pegged solid wood construction, ...

A one-of-a-kind rustic antique American country work table in original plum - wine paint finish with heavily worn distressed patina! Full of antique character and unique folky charm, featuring primitve hand-crafted farmhouse craftsmanship and solid wooden construction, having a plank boarded top, simple wide apron with pegged detail, rising on distinctive spool-turned Jenny Lind legs terminating in tapering ring-turned feet. This rustic folk art table most likely originating in the Southern United States, handmade during the early/mid-19th century by a farmer, not a formally trained carpenter or furniture maker, adding to the overall antique character, elegant warmth, and rich historical depth. Dimensions: (approx) 33" High, 64" Wide, 31" Deep Provenance / Acquisition: Acquired from reputable auction house Bright Star Antiques Co., Sulfur Springs, Texas. May 2022 Session 1.5 catalog. Founded on generations of experience in rare antiques and furnishings, Bright Star has been specializing in rare American country antiques and architectural elements for over 25 years. Condition: Beautiful age, weathered patina and attractive faded mellow coloring. Heavily worn, naturally distressed, chippy paint, losses, warping, slight wobble, substantial wear and tear consistent with age and use. Not overly strong or sturdy, but certainly functional and delivered ready for immediate use. Jenny Lind’s Legs? Johanna Maria Lind (Sweden; 1820–1887) spent many nights in the U.S. during her wildly popular concert tour, presenting an opportunity for furniture makers to claim that P.T. Barnum’s Swedish Nightingale rested in one of their beds. Celebrity endorsements—sanctioned or not—had been found to boost sales, and 19th-century entrepreneurs had little aversion to stretching the truth. By the time she returned to Europe, Jenny Lind’s name or likeness had been affixed to riding hats, cigars, dolls, perfume, and more. Still, the association between spool-turned beds and the name “Jenny Lind” appears to be a 20th-century phenomenon, likely an attempt to conjure a connection to simpler times after the fact. Several bits of folklore connect the opera star with specific beds. The most widespread asserts that Philadelphia furniture manufacturer George J. Henkels placed a special bed—actually, a carved Rococo piece with a side canopy—in Lind’s hotel, and later gave it to her as a gift or, in a divergent ending, vowed to name it after her. A second story centers on a common, early 19th-century mahogany spool bed...

Quite elemental in form, this Rustic table features attractive deep grained wood with a tactile hewn top finish. The wood is very heavy and tight grained and reminiscent of a South A...

A rarely seen dynamic form in original distressed condition with great all over age and use patina. In an overall weathered finish to a pale gray tone, with some mortise and tenon co...