Once hailed as a masterpiece of American furniture and then labeled a sophisticated fake, recent scholarship argues that this lavishly decorated card table is the work of Philadelphia craftsman Adam Hains. The ornate bell flowers on the legs relate to the decoration of other furniture associated with Hains, as does the table’s use of thick, oak boards for some of the structural elements. The central panel depicts a griffin, a mythological beast that is part lion and part eagle. Thomas Sheraton’s The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing-Book of 1791–94 illustrates a similarly posed griffin, holding a floral swag in one paw and its tail transforming into a leafy scroll, that may have inspired Hains’ design.