Card table Maker, attributed to: Duncan Phyfe (American, 1768–1854)

1810–25

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany, mahogany veneer; yellow poplar (compartment bottom), eastern white pine (medial brace)

Dimensions

30 11/16 × 35 7/8 × 17 13/16 in. (77.9 × 91.2 × 45.2 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1930.2005

Geography

Manufactured in New York

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Fred Wellington Ayer (1855–1936), Bangor, Maine, by May 1929; sale, American Art Association, New York, May 3, 1929–May 4, 1929, lot 444; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, May 4, 1929; given to the 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), 224–25, no. 118, ill
  • "Early American Numbers Command High Prices at Ayer Dispersal," Furniture Buyer and Decorator 118 (June 1929), 34
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

card tables

Inscriptions

"No 1" is written in pencil on the stop screwed to the underside of the top. "F W Ayer" is written in pencil on the underside of the compartment's bottom.

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