Card Tables

Dateca. 1790

Terms

Card Tables
Wood
Maple
Pine
United States

Dimensions73.6 × 88.83 cm (29 × 35 in.)

Credit LineGift of Cummings E. Davis (1886)

Object numberF1204

DescriptionMahogany, maple, pine. Circular (when open) Hepplewhite style card table; four legs, one leaf. Legs straight, square, tapered. Curved apron at front of two bands of lapped pieces, fits into slots in front legs, joined to right rear leg, dovetailed at left to rear apron brace, other end of which is rabbeted to right rear leg and nailed to rear apron. Bottom edge of top cove molded at front. Triple stringing at top of leaf, edge of leaf has two bands of checkered inlay outlined in stringing. A band around bottom of apron and over legs. Apron veneered with rectangular stringing. Oval fan patera inlay at top of front egs. Stringing on fronts of legs.

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