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Card Table

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Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1820-1830

GUSN

GUSN-44438

Description

Card Table. Mahogany and mahogany veneer, white pine secondary wood, brass casters. Serpentine top and sides; lunette inlay in sides of top. Rests on reeded legs with carved leaves.

Details

Descriptive Terms

card tables
mahogany (wood)
veneer
Norway spruce (wood)
Table
Table, Card
Table, Card

Additional Identification Number

9.1983

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

28 1/2 x 36 3/8 x 17 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Edwin Buckingham Sears

Accession Number

1987.1436

Reference Notes

Wesselman, Linda J. and Martha D. Hamilton. Earliest Recollections: Furnishings from the Family of Edwin B. Sears. Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1984.

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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