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Card Table

Collection Type

  • Furniture

Date

ca. 1810

GUSN

GUSN-5072

Description

Square; cylindrically tapered feet, four legs reeded within turnings, and ring turnings below stiles, stiles inlaid with rectangular panels, one swing leg, elliptical front apron edged with light and dark wood stringing, conforming double top, edges inlaid with banding.

Details

Descriptive Terms

card tables
tables (support furniture)
graining
inlay (process)
mahogany (wood)
veneer
Mahogany Veneer
Inlaid
Grained
TABLE, CARD

Associated Building

Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

30.188 x 36 x 17.5 (HxWxD) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Ralph May

Accession Number

1971.478

Places

New Hampshire (United States)

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