A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY CARD-TABLE

Property of A NEW JERSEY FAMILY

Details

A CHIPPENDALE CARVED MAHOGANY CARD-TABLE
PHILADELPHIA, 1760-1780

The hinged rectangular top with outset rounded corners folding above a baize-lined playing surface with dished counter holders and corner candlestick holders over a conforming apron centering a single thumbmolded long drawer, on cabriole legs with shell carved knees and foliate returns edged with punchwork decoration and ball-and-claw feet--29 1/2in. high, 29 7/8in. long, 31in. deep (open)

Provenance

Howard Reifsnyder, Anderson Art Galleries, April 27, 1929, Lot 632

Literature

Antiques, vol. 71, no. 3 (March, 1957), pp. 254-259.
Wallace Nutting, Furniture Treasury, vol. 1 (New York, 1948), fig. 1026.

Lot Essay

Stylistic features of this table, such as the shell and bellflower carving, relate to objects attributed to the shop of John Elliot of Philadelphia (active 1753-17-0). A similar card table, with related carving and beaded rear stiles, is in the Garvan collection at Yale (see David L. Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses (New Haven, CT, 1992), pp. 170-172, fig. 76). Both these tables were in the Reifsnyder collection and sold at auction in 1929 (Anderson Art Galleries, The Reifsnyder Collection, lots 632 and 641).