Card table Maker: Unknown

1750–75

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany; white oak (hinged rail), southern yellow pine (inner rear rail, drawer runner), yellow-poplar (drawer sides and back), Atlantic white cedar (drawer bottom), eastern white pine (glue blocks), hickory (hinge pin)

Dimensions

28 1/4 × 35 5/8 × 15 9/16 in. (71.7 × 90.5 × 39.6 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2628

Geography

Made in Pennsylvania

Culture

American

Period

18th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
John Joseph Maguire (born 1854–unknown), Harrisburg, Pa. [see note 1]; possibly sold to Howard Reifsnyder (1869–1929), Philadelphia; sale, American Art Association, New York, April 27, 1929, lot. 641; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, April 27, 1929; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1930

Note 1: The fragmentary label on the underside of the top apparently was put on by John Joseph Maguire, who was listed in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, directories as a watchmaker at various locations on Market Street between 1900 and 1910 (Harrisburg Directory, 1900, p. 378; 1906, p. 476; 1910, p. 498).

Sources: 1900 United States Federal Census - AncestryLibrary.com

Reifsnyder: 1900 United States Federal Census - AncestryLibrary.com
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), 170–72, no. 76, ill
  • Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, 1st ed., 3 vols. (Framingham, Mass.: Old American Company Publishers, 1928–33), vol. 1, n.p., no. 1026.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

card tables

Inscriptions

"#413/R" is written in chalk on the left drawer side. A printed paper label is glued to the underside of the top: "Penn [...]00 P.M.,/J. J. MAGUIRE / 406 MARKET STREET. HARRI[...]/[...] Scheffer, Printer and Bookbinder, 21 South Second Street, Exclusiv[e...]." A printed and typewritten paper label is glued to the exterior of the fixed portion of the hinged rail: "To be deatached and fixed on back of object before/delivery to driver./ NAME OF OWNER Howard Reifsnyder,/ STREET 3914 Walnut Street,/ CITY Philadelphia, Pa./ NAME OF OBJECT One Folding Card Table." "6" is written in pencil on a piece of paper pasted to the underside of the top.

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