One-half of an American Empire mahogany part dining table. Two rectangular table tops with rounded outer corners hinged at the center. Drop leaf's outer edge has tenons to connect to the mortises on the matching part dining table. Apron features a bead along bottom edge with a low-relief foliate carving on front corners. Pedestal is undecorated except at base with a carved foliate wreath on the shaped plinth supported by four animal paws capped with acanthus leaves terminating with brass casters.
Girandole candlestick featuring an Elizabethan couple; adapted to burn oil by the insertion of a peg lamp, which is a heavy ribbed glass reservoir situated behind the two-part crystal prisms. A glass peg was sized to fit the socket originally meant for a candle.
Year Range From
1830
Year Range To
1840
Storage Location
Wheatland, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
North Broad Hall
Storage Wall
Southwest Wall
Storage Cabinet
Drop-leaf Table
Object Name
Girandole
Oither Names
Peg Lamp
Material
Marble/Brass/Glass/Crystal/Cloth
Height (cm)
49.53
Height (ft)
1.625
Height (in)
19.5
Width (cm)
13.97
Width (ft)
0.4583333333
Width (in)
5.5
Depth (cm)
8.89
Depth (ft)
0.2916666667
Depth (in)
3.5
Diameter (cm)
8.89
Diameter (ft)
0.2916666667
Diameter (in)
3.5
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2022-01-28
Object ID
W.1989.089.002
Notes
Globes missing from two of the three girandoles. Deed of gift credits donors with giving a pair of girandoles. Deed of gift cites girandoles as both having globes.
Credit
Mrs. Frank (Dorothy) Skilton, Mrs. Willard (Virginia) Workman
One-half of a Sheraton mahogany part dining table. Two rectangular table tops with rounded outer corners hinged at the center. The apron features a bead along bottom edge with a low-relief foliate carving centered on the front. The five turned, tapering legs, one being a gate-leg, terminate with bun feet.
Year Range From
1820
Year Range To
1840
Storage Location
Wheatland, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
North Broad Hall
Storage Wall
Southwest Wall
Object Name
Table, Dropleaf
Material
Mahogany
Height (cm)
73.66
Height (ft)
2.4166666667
Height (in)
29
Length (cm)
112.395
Length (ft)
3.6875
Length (in)
44.25
Width (cm)
57.15
Width (ft)
1.875
Width (in)
22.5
Depth (cm)
57.15
Depth (ft)
1.875
Depth (in)
22.5
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2022-01-31
Object ID
W.1940.030.001
Notes
Placed on long-term loan to the James Buchanan Foundation in 1940. In 2010 Director, Patrick Clarke reached out to the Philadelphia Chapter of the DAR, requesting that the Chapter consider converting the loan to a donation. The Philadelphia Chapter of the DAR agreed to convert the loan to a gift on April 1, 2010.
One-half of a Sheraton mahogany part dining table. Two rectangular table tops with rounded outer corners hinged at the center. The apron features a bead along bottom edge with a low-relief foliate carving centered on the front. The five turned, tapering legs, one being a gate-leg, terminate with bun feet.
Year Range From
1820
Year Range To
1840
Storage Location
Wheatland, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
South Broad Hall
Storage Wall
Northwest Wall
Object Name
Table, Dropleaf
Material
Mahogany
Height (cm)
73.66
Height (ft)
2.4166666667
Height (in)
29
Length (cm)
112.395
Length (ft)
3.6875
Length (in)
44.25
Width (cm)
57.15
Width (ft)
1.875
Width (in)
22.5
Depth (cm)
57.15
Depth (ft)
1.875
Depth (in)
22.5
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2022-01-31
Object ID
W.1940.030.002
Notes
Placed on long-term loan to the James Buchanan Foundation in 1940. In 2010 Director, Patrick Clarke reached out to the Philadelphia Chapter of the DAR, requesting that the Chapter consider converting the loan to a donation. The Philadelphia Chapter of the DAR agreed to convert the loan to a gift on April 1, 2010.
A brass candle holder has a central socket known as the capital which holds the candle; the capital has decorative pairs of incised lines set at one quarter distance from the top, six in the center and two one quarter distance from the bottom. The capital also features an oblong-shaped opening with a short handle protruding for the thumb to raise the candle up through the capital as it burns. The capital surmounts a brass drip pan with a loop-shaped finger grip riveted to the underside lip of the drip pan.
Year Range From
1830
Year Range To
1870
Storage Location
Wheatland, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Butler's Pantry
Storage Wall
South Wall
Storage Cabinet
Work Table
Storage Shelf
Table Top
Object Name
Chamberstick
Material
Brass
Height (cm)
12.065
Height (ft)
0.3958333333
Height (in)
4.75
Depth (cm)
1.905
Depth (ft)
0.0625
Depth (in)
0.75
Diameter (cm)
17.145
Diameter (ft)
0.5625
Diameter (in)
6.75
Dimension Details
Depth dimension is only the tray
Condition
Fair
Condition Date
2022-02-01
Condition Notes
Several dents on the drip pan from use, the thumb lever and hogscraper is missing as is the extinguisher that would have been attached to the finger handle.
A pewter water pitcher made in a form similar to the Boardmans pewtersmiths of Hartford, Connecticut. Boardmans' pewter shop was in business from 1804-1873.
Lovebird mark, albeit is not completely struck, which is two facing birds with the initials LO and VE.
Inscription Type
Hallmark
Object Name
Plate, Food
Material
Pewter
Makers Mark
The plate was not made in London as one mark suggests. The love mark was used over a long period of time, ca. 1750-1840, and by a succession of Philadelphia pewterers.
