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Federal period, Hepplewhite style serpentine front card table with four square tapered legs, frontal two with a string inlay and one swinging as a gate. There is a case enclosing a serpentine inlaid apron with mahogany dies centering a bird's eye maple panel, and a conforming folding top with an edge inlay.
card tables
tables (support furniture)
bird's-eye maple
inlay (process)
maple (wood)
Federal
Hepplewhite
maple (wood)
Maple
Federal
Hepplewhite
Inlaid
TABLE, CARD
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Unknown
28.25 x 15 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.720
Possibly Maine (United States)
Possibly
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