Table, Card

Object Name:

Table, Card

Object ID:

1975.058.03

Date:

1830-1835

Description:

Card Table, square. Empire style. Mahogany, with white pine. Hinged, folding and rotating top with rounded corners and edges. Cavetto molded front and side rails each decorated along lower edge with enriched molding of modified bead and reel type. Simple, lyre-shaped support composed of two angular S scrolls joined at the bottom. Lyre support has cavetto molded base with enriched molding on front like that on rails. Rectangular platform having four incurved sides with scalloped lower edges (except on back) and integral scrolled feet, with brass casters, at the corners, oriented diagonally. Entire outer surface of table is veneered except back rail and rear edges of top. The enriched moldings are applied. The top is veneered on mahogany. Addition of bottom boards at right end provides a storage compartment, visible when top is rotated. Many cracks and chips in veneers. Large rectangular patch on inner surface of hinged leaf. Joint broken at left front corner, resulting in loose side rail. Triangular corner blocks of pine at front corners. Circular saw and machine planing marks visible.

Material:

Wood
Mahogany
Pine

Dimensions:

H-28.75 W-33.25 D-16.75 inches

Provenance:

Items in this accession were presumably acquired by the Garden Club from local members in the early 1930s. They furnished a room in the Littleton Library that was set aside for Garden Club use.

Credit Line:

Gift of the White Moutain Garden Club, Littleton, New Hampshire