Lot Essay
With no direct precedent in 18th century English pattern books, the flowing, slender yet architectonic design of this card table is unique to America, and originated in Newport (Jobe and Kaye, New England Furniture: The Colonial Era (Boston, 1984), p. 292). A related table is illustrated in The Girl Scout Catalogue (New York, 1929), fig. 657, as is another table in the same publication with carved cabriole legs, fig. 627. A related table, one of a pair from the Taradash Collection, is illustrated and discussed in Carpenter, The Arts and Crafts of Newport, Rhode Island (Newport, 1954), p. 95, fig. 67; as is a related card table in the collection of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (Jobe and Kaye, pp. 291-294, fig. fig. 70). Another related card table is illustrated in Ward, et al, American Furniture with Related Decorative Arts 1660-1830: The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Layton Art Collection (New York, 1991), pp. 182-184, fig. 68.