Table, Card
- Object Name:
- Table, Card
- Object ID:
- 1933.001.05
- Creator:
- Blanchard, Porter (1788-1871)
Manufacturer - Place of Origin:
- Concord, NH (possibly)
- Date:
- circa 1820
- Description:
- Card Table. Mahogany. Elaborately shaped outline. Folding top, hinged leaf supported on swinging left rear leg. Front and side rails are veneered and edged with a cocked bead that extends across front and side surfaces of legs. Vertically reeded colonnettes formed by front legs at their juncture with canted corners of frame. Both leaves at 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. Maple outer back and fly rail, white pine also used.
- Material:
- Wood
- Dimensions:
- H-30.125 W-36.5 L-35.375 inches
- Provenance:
- From the home of the donor's great-grandfather, John Bradley (1743-1815) and Hannah Ayer Bradley (b. 1751) of Concord, NH. The house was built by Bradley in 1769 and torn down by the donor in 1912.
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Margaret H. Jewell
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