Lot Essay
This straight front card table with square Marlboro legs and gadrooned apron was a particularly popular form in Philadelphia in the second half of the Eighteenth Century. "Card tables with Marlboro feet" are listed in an unidentified Philadelphia price list for furniture published in 1772, and was described as a "card table with a drawer...with braces and bragetes...with carved moldings cost L4." Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mable Brady Garvan and Other Collection at Yale University(1992, New Haven)pp. 171-173. A similar example retaining its brackets in the collection is illustrated p. 172 fig. 77.