Pair of card tables Maker: Unknown

1800–1820

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany; mahogany and satinwood veneers; eastern white pine (frame rails, glue blocks), soft maple (hinged rail)

Dimensions

29 7/8 × 36 × 17 1/2 in. (75.9 × 91.4 × 44.5 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan Collection

Accession Number

1934.401a-b

Geography

Probably made in Boston, Massachusetts, Coastal

Culture

American

Period

19th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
With Israel Sack, Inc. (Israel Sack, dealer, died 1953); Boston, by 1927; acquired by Jacob Margolis (1875–unknown) [see note 1], New York, by 1927; sold to Francis P. Garvan (1875–1937), New York, March 9, 1927; given to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1934

Note 1: Jacob Margolis acquired this pair of tables "out of the Marblehead house, the King Hooper House that was operated as a branch of Israel Sack's Boston shop (Arthur W. Clarke to Garvan, March 8, 1927, Clarke file, Taylor file, Francis P. Garvan. Correspondence and Related Papers. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
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), 203–4, no. 102, 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. 160
  • Edgar G. Miller, American Antique Furniture: A Book for Amateurs, 2 vols. (Baltimore: Lord Baltimore Press, 1937), vol. 2, pp. 790–91, no. 1523
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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