Lot Essay
A label on the inside of the rear rail of this table reads, Bought of Abner Hurd (Hand?) probably belonged to the Ann Smith Family.
The graceful, sinuous legs of this card table relate it to a group of tables with reeded cyma legs, each a variant on the theme. The related examples are center or card tables, none of which have the characteristic five legs as does this table. See, Girl Scout Loan Exhibition (New York, 1929), nos. 768, 774; American Antiques from Isreal Sack Collection, vol. I, no. 11 (May, 1963), no. 648, P261: Sotheby's, June 1993, lot 455; Pearce, "American Furniture in the White House", Antiques, vol. 81, no. 5 (May, 1962), color plate.
The graceful, sinuous legs of this card table relate it to a group of tables with reeded cyma legs, each a variant on the theme. The related examples are center or card tables, none of which have the characteristic five legs as does this table. See, Girl Scout Loan Exhibition (New York, 1929), nos. 768, 774; American Antiques from Isreal Sack Collection, vol. I, no. 11 (May, 1963), no. 648, P261: Sotheby's, June 1993, lot 455; Pearce, "American Furniture in the White House", Antiques, vol. 81, no. 5 (May, 1962), color plate.