1820-1830
GUSN-62651
Card table. Mahogany. Rectangular top with rounded corners and molded edge hinged along back edge. Top revolves ninety degrees and leaf swings onto rails by means of a brass rolled hinge. Molding cut into sides of rails with applied ribs at front corners. Top has white pine medial brace on its underside. Plain cylindrical shaft on molded circular plinth. Rests on four saber legs that terminate in hairy paw cast brass feet on casters.
card tables
tables (support furniture)
brass (alloy)
Empire (style)
Empire
Brass
TABLE, CARD
Used at Barrett House (New Ipswich, N.H.),
P759
Unknown
29 x 35 x 18 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Caroline Barr Wade
1987.657
Massachusetts (United States)
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