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Card Table

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Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

1821

GUSN

GUSN-44442

Description

Card table. Mahogany, yellow pine, white pine, inlay. Serpentine front and sides; applied beading on rails; molded top. Rests on turned and reeded legs

Details

Descriptive Terms

card tables
tables (support furniture)
mahogany (wood)
Norway spruce (wood)
yellow pine (wood, general)
Federal
Table
Table, Card
Table, Card

Additional Identification Number

13.1983

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

29 1/4 x 37 x 15 7/8 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Edwin Buckingham Sears

Accession Number

1987.1440

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.

Date

1821 (circa)

Places

Massachusetts (United States)

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