Collection Highlights
Armchair
1785-1789
1916.7
Mahogany; pine, poplar
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Card table
Object name
Card table
Date
1795-1805
Medium
Mahogany, satinwood; poplar
Dimensions
closed: 28 1/2 x 35 3/4 x 18 in. ( 72.4 x 90.8 x 45.7 cm )
Description
Mahogany Federal card table with satinwood inlay; circular top with a single band of stringing, edges with veneer banding, and halves joined by a single leaf-edge tenon; apron with three inlaid rectangles of stringing framed by inlaid bookend panels above four tapering, squared front legs, each with inlaid icicle, stringing, and cuff; fifth leg (a fly leg) without icicle inlay.
Credit Line
Bequest of Irving S. Olds
Object Number
1963.102
Marks
Signature: in chalk on underside of table: "Edward Rogers"
Gallery Label
This card table is similar in design to a table in the collection of Benjamin A. Hewitt (illustrated in "The Work of Many Hands," Yale, 1982), which was apparently manufactured in Providence, Rhode Island, and sold in New York by George Shipley, a wholesaler of materials and a retailer of finished goods, including furniture.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
