Drab Coloured Table

Four cabriole legs in soft gray-green, each rubbed pale at the knees.

This drab coloured table is painted pine. Drab is an old name for muted brownish or grayish colors, long a practical favorite for painted country furniture. The round top is scrubbed to a pale, weathered gray-brown, its boards plainly visible. Below, a simple apron and four curving cabriole legs carry gray-green paint, worn through in places to lighter layers and bare wood. An X-shaped stretcher joins the legs low down, and the feet end in small rounded pads. It is 39.5 inches in diameter and 30 high.

Drab by name, and quietly charming anyway.