Table, Card
- Object Name:
- Table, Card
- Object ID:
- 1936.003.02
- Creator:
- Blanchard, Porter
- Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH (possibly)
- Date:
- circa 1820
- Description:
- Card table. Elaborately shaped outline. Mahogany, with pine and maple secondary woods. Folding top, hinged leaf being supported on swinging left rear leg. Front and side rails are veneered and edged with a cocked bead which extends across front and side surfaces of legs. Vertically reeded colonnettes formed by the front legs at their juncture with the canted corners of the frame. Both leaves of the top have semicircular projections at front corners above the colonnettes. Edges of top are beaded. Four turned and reeded legs with ring and bulb turnings at top; below ring-turned anklets, feet are cylindrical and tapering with terminal buttons. Tops of rear legs, adjacent to side rails reeded to match decoration of colonnettes at front corners.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-30 W-36.5 D-35.5 inches
- Provenance:
- Identical table (1933.001.05), clearly the mate to this one, was said to have been used in the Bradley House, Concord, NH. The donor of this table, Alice E. Peabody, was born 1859 in Claremont, NH, but she is listed in the Concord City Directories from 1889 to 1936.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Alice E. Peabody
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