Card Table Maker: Unknown

1765–85

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany (including drawer front), mahogany veneer; soft maple (front and side frame rails), eastern white pine (inner rear rail, drawer runner and guide, strip supporting dustboard), white oak (hinge

Dimensions

27 × 34 × 15 7/8 in. (68.6 × 86.3 × 40.3 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2618

Geography

Made in New York, New York

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
With Joe Kindig, Jr. (1898-1971), York, Pa., by June 1929; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, June 11, 1929; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930

Sources: This may be the aforementioned Joe Kindig? 1910 United States Federal Census - AncestryLibrary.com

https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/479719:1967?tid=&pid=&queryId=c4071e303c0c63892e113372ce1848f1&_phsrc=lWN44&_phstart=successSource
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), 169–70, no. 75, ill
  • John T. Kirk, Early American Furniture: How to Recognize, Evaluate, and Care for the Most Beautiful Pieces: High Style, Country, Primitive and Rustic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970), 36–37, fig. 22
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

card tables

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