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Federal period. Sheraton style card table with serpentine sides and elliptical front. Conforming hinged top with double band of checkered inlay along edge. Frontal skirt decorated with a rectangular mahogany veneer panel with central oval reserve of burled maple; central panel flanked by simple maple panels. Corners of skirt with half-round molded edge. Four reeded tapered legs terminating in bulb swelled ankles above peg feet; one leg swings out.
card tables
tables (support furniture)
burl veneer
inlay (process)
mahogany (wood)
veneer
maple (wood)
Federal
maple (wood)
Sheraton
Maple
Mahogany Veneer
Federal
Sheraton
Inlaid
TABLE, CARD
Original to Hamilton House (South Berwick, Me.),
Unknown
29.313 x 37.25 x 17.375 (HxWxD) (inches)
Bequest of Elizabeth R. Vaughan
1949.412
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