PROBABLY NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1800-1820

Details

A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY CARD TABLE
PROBABLY NEW HAMPSHIRE, 1800-1820
the underside of top with bearing chalk inscription N2
28 ¼ in. high, 36 in. wide, 18 in. deep

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Lot Essay

The form of this card table, square with an elliptical front, is often associated with urban New Hampshire cabinetmaking as is the tripartite front skirt and broken-column inlay. For a similar example see Benjamin A. Hewitt, Patricia E. Kane and Gerald W. R. Ward, The Work of Many Hands: Card Tables in Federal America 1790-1820 (New Haven, 1982), pp. 116-117, cat. 2.

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