Card Table Maker: Unknown

1790–1810

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany with mahogany, maple, and rosewood veneers; eastern white pine (frame rails, glue blocks), birch (hinged rail)

Dimensions

29 3/4 × 35 15/16 × 17 7/8 in. (75.5 × 91.3 × 45.4 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2777

Geography

Probably made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
R.T. Haines Halsey (1865–1942), New York, by 1929; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, 1930; gift to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930
Bibliography
  • David L. Barquist, Elisabeth Donaghy Garrett, and Gerald W. R. Ward, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 198, 200–201, no. 99, ill
  • Elise K. Kenney, ed., Handbook of the Collections: Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1992), 94, ill
  • Benjamin Attmore Hewitt, Patricia E. Kane, and Gerald W. R. Ward, The Work of Many Hands: Card Tables in Federal America, 1790–1820, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), 138–9, no. 21, ill
  • Edgar G. Miller, American Antique Furniture: A Book for Amateurs, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1937), vol. 2, pp. 784, 787, no. 1512
  • Girl Scouts of the United States of America, Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century Furniture and Glass, exh. cat. (New York: Lent & Graff Company, 1929), no. 728
  • Loan Exhibition of Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth-Century Furniture and Glass, exh. cat. (New York: American Art Galleries, 1929), n.p., no. 728
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

card tables

Inscriptions

"R.T.H. Halsey" is written in ink on a paper tag glued to the underside of the top. "ADDISON GALLERY / PHILLIPS ACADEMY / ANDOVER, MASSACHUSETTS" is printed on a second paper label attached to the underside of the top; "No. 612.b.1932" is typed on this label.

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