Table, Card

Object Name:

Table, Card

Object ID:

1975.008.01

Date:

1830-1840

Description:

Card Table. Mahogany with white pine. Square, with rounded corners and pedestal base. Hinged, folding and rotating top. All four rails are veneered and edged with a cocked bead. The front corners of rails are horizontally reeded. Front rail has a slightly projecting rectangular tablet at center. Base has large urn-shaped shaft, carved with oak leaves, and four sabre legs with applied brass paw feet. Legs are rectangular in cross-section with double-arched tops and are dovetailed into round, veneered platform beneath shaft. Feet have brass casters. Table composed of three pieces -- top, shaft, and base -- connected with mortise-and-tenon joints and formerly glued. Additions of bottom boards at right provides a storage compartment, visible if top is rotated. Top will no longer turn, because of cracked framework. A trapezoidal corner block visible at exposed front left corner. Finish crazed. Several cracks in veneers. Several vertical cracks and one patch in shaft. Dovetail joints for two legs broken. Long cracks in bottom of veneered base in bottom board of compartments. Printed mover's (?) label on bottom: "198/Reg. No.".



Card Table -Mahogany, roughly made. Table top has rounded reeded corners. Top supported by urn shaped support. Urn has rough oak leaf carving around base of urn. Urn rests upon circular base supported by four double legs which end in brass feet. Casters under each foot. To open, twist top sideways.

Material:

Wood
Mahogany
Pine
Brass

Dimensions:

H-29.5 W-36 L-17.75 inches

Provenance:

Table belonged to Leslie Boynton Farr of New York City (b. Littleton, NH. 1878) and his wife Clara Emily Wellman Farr (b. Cornish, NH, 1881). Table used by Mrs. Farr when she resided at the Eagle Hotel (Convalescence Center), Concord, NH (former history of table unknown). Donor is the niece of Mrs. Farr (donor's father, James Albert Wellman, is Mrs. Farr's brother).

Credit Line:

Gift of Harriet V. Wellman

People:

Farr, Leslie (1878- ), Wellman, Clara (1881-1975), Wellman, Harriet V. (1900-1987)