Table, Card

Object Name:

Table, Card

Object ID:

1984.052.01

Date:

1840-1850

Description:

Card Table. Late Empire style. Mahogany, mahogany veneer, and pine. Approximately square tabletop (when open), with rounded corners, atop a simplified lyre base and scrolled feet on brass casters. To open tabletop, folded top is rotated 90 degrees on a stationery pivot over a compartment, which then forms the support for the opened table (note that this table is missing the mechanism -- a block of wood -- that would prevent rotating table in the incorrect direction). Tabletop is mahogany, with veneer on edges. Roman numeral "VII" incised onto interior (when open) edges of tabletop. The two panels of the tabletop are held together with brass hinges screwed into the short ends of the tabletop edges.
The compartment is dovetail construction, painted red on the back, and attached to the lyre base with cut nails. Base attached to feet block with large bolts.
Finish in poor condition (see condition notes). Piece of yellow tape attached to underside, no legible inscriptions.

Material:

Wood
Mahogany
Pine
Metal

Dimensions:

H-27.875 W-33.5 D-34.25 inches

Provenance:

From the donor's home in Pembroke, NH; donor grew up in New Hampshire, and has a long family heritage in Hancock, NH (see accession file for genealogy supplied by donor). Donor was Director of Communicable Disease Control for the State of New Hampshire, 1940s.
No information provided as to whether this 1840s table was purchased by donor for his 1940s Pembroke home, or if it descended in the family.

Credit Line:

Gift of Edward W. Colby

People:

Colby, Edward W. (1914-1999)