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Card Table

Collection Type

  • Furniture

GUSN

GUSN-269282

Description

Federal style card table. Serpentined shape with conforming hinged top with rosewood veneer, banded edge of stylized leafy vine motif meeting in a cruciform in the center; conforming skirt with three panels of feathered birch veneer surrounded by black and white dash inlay, the whole with rose cross-banding; turreted corners; four turned and reeded legs with elongated bulb feet with rear leg swinging to support leaf top; top of legs with inset panel of birch veneer.

Details

Descriptive Terms

card tables
Table, Card

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Woodbury Langdon

Accession Number

1966.304

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