Card table (one of a pair) Maker: Unknown

1800–1820

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany, mahogany and maple veneers; sylvestris pine (front, side, and hinged rails), eastern white pine (inner rear rail, glue blocks), hickory (hinge pin)

Dimensions

30 × 36 1/2 × 17 5/8 in. (76.2 × 92.7 × 44.8 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Clark R. McIlwaine in memory of her mother Margaret Tyler Clark

Accession Number

1946.3a-b

Geography

Made in Massachusetts coast, Probably made in Boston, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

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Provenance
Margaret Mcllwaine (Mrs. Clarke Mcllwaine, née Margaret Knickerbocher Clark, 1898–1980), Washington, D.C. and New Hartford, Conn., by 1946; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1946

Sources: Mrs. Clarke Mcllwaine U.S., Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current - 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), 204–5, no. 103, 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), 144–45, no. 27, 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), 152–53, fig. 158
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

card tables

Inscriptions

"2" is written in pencil on the underside of the top and the upper surfaces of the front rail and the fixed part of the hinged rail.

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