A CHIPPENDALE CHERRYWOOD AND WALNUT CARD TABLE
Possibly New Jersey, 1760-1790
The rectangular hinged top with outset rounded corners above a conforming frame fitted with one thumbmolded long drawer over a gadrooned skirt, on cabriole legs with ball-and-claw feet, appears to retain its original brasses
27½in. high, 35in. wide, 35in. deep (open)
Provenance
Colonel John (1735-1809) and Joanna (Beekman) (1729-1816) Mehelm, Brownley's Mills and Pluckemin, New Jersey
Martha (Mehelm) McEowen (1763-1837), daughter
Joanna (McEowen) Brown (b. 1783), daughter
James Gaston Brown (b. 1827), son
Helen L. (Brown) de Lagerberg (1852-1943), daughter
Guy de Lagerberg (1890-1981), son
Ruth H. (Rogers) de Lagerberg, wife, present owner
Lot Essay
For family history, see note to lot 79.
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