Table, Card

Object Name:

Table, Card

Object ID:

1970.035.08

Place of Origin:

Massachusetts (probably)

Date:

1795-1820

Description:

Card Table. Sheraton style. Maple, mahogany, birch, and inlay woods, with white pine secondary wood. Square table with elliptical front. Folding top, hinged leaf being supported on swinging left rear leg. Edges of top decorated along middle with dark and light, double line stringing. Identical stringing borders over panel at center of front rail. Dark and light triangle stringing above light, undulating line stringing along bottom edge of front and side rails and extending across front and side surfaces of legs. Upper parts of front legs, adjacent to front rail, bordered at sides with vertical dart stringing. Four tapering, square legs with cuffs of geometric inlay above which fronts of legs are bordered with light, line stringing. Top and side rails are maple; legs birch; front rail pine veneered with mahogany and maple; blocks and inner back rail pine; outer back and fly rail birch. Stained in order to achieve uniform color. Refinished. Vertical corner blocks. Glue blocks have separated from rails. Check in fly rail. Top damaged and repaired near right hinge. Break in stringing at bottom of front rail. Back corners of upper leaf broken above hinge. Front rail laminated in two horizontal layers.

Material:

Wood
Maple
Mahogany
Birch
Pine
Metal

Dimensions:

H-28.75 W-35.75 D-17.125 inches

Provenance:

Part of the collection assembled by Mr. and Mrs. Harry K. Rogers. The donors purchased New Hampshire antiques, often at auction, for use in their Suncook, NH, home.

Credit Line:

Mr. and Mrs. Harry K. Rogers Collection, Bequest of Josephine P. Rogers

People:

Rogers, Harry (1886-1961), Rogers, Josephine (1887-1970)