Table, Card
- Object Name:
- Table, Card
- Object ID:
- 1949.004.02
- Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH/Portsmouth, NH/Exeter, NH/Salem, MA/Newbury, MA
- Date:
- circa 1810
- Description:
- Card Table. Federal style. Square, with an elliptical front and folding top. The hinged leaf is supported on the swinging left rear leg. The edges of the top are decorated along the middle with diagonal stringing, enclosed by dark and light line strings. The front and side rails are veneered with figured birch panels and bordered with mahogany crossbanding. There are three panels on the front and one at each end. There are smaller birch panels at the top of the legs, adjacent to the rails, on the front and side surfaces. All the panels are outlined by dark and light double line stringing. The direction of the grain alternates from panel to panel across the front. There is a narrow mahogany crossband, bordered with light line stringing extending along the bottom edge of the front and side rails and across the front and side surfaces of the legs. There are four turned, reeded legs with elongated bulb feet as well as three annulets and bulb turnings above the reeded portion of the leg. There is a plain cylindrical section above the ring-turned anklet. There are vertical corner blocks with the back right one missing. The front rail is laminated in three horizontal layers The underside of the top has been varnished at some point. The inner and outer back rails are attached with cut nails. A hole in the bottom of each leg indicates the former use of casters.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-29.75 W-36 D-33 inches
- Provenance:
- Given to the donor's mother, Augusta Prescott Carter (1845-1916) by Miss Elizabeth H. Lincoln (1852-1920) when they were neighbors on School Street, Concord, NH, 1865-1875. It was said to have been "restored" by (for) the donor's mother.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Mary A. Carter
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