Card Table Maker: Unknown

1790–1810

American Decorative Arts

By appointment, Hume Furniture Study
Medium

Mahogany, mahogany veneer; eastern white pine (frame rails, glue blocks), hard maple (hinged rail)

Dimensions

28 9/16 × 35 15/16 × 16 15/16 in. (72.6 × 91.3 × 43 cm)

Credit Line

Mabel Brady Garvan and C. Sanford Bull, B.A. 1893, Collections, by exchange

Accession Number

1966.64

Geography

Made in Massachusetts coast, or Newburyport, Massachusetts

Culture

American

Period

18th–19th century

Classification

Furniture

Disclaimer

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Provenance
Exchanged with Israel Sack, Inc., New York; by the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., September 29, 1966 [see note 1]

Note 1: Five Chippendale chairs,1952.50.5b-f, and a high chest of drawers,1930.2762, were exchanged in part for the table.
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), 184–86, no. 87, ill
  • John T. Kirk, American Furniture and the British Tradition to 1830 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982), 146–47, fig. 377
  • American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–89), vol. 1, p. 258, no. 642, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

card tables

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