Card tables with five legs are emblematic of New York craftsmanship in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This card table matches the description in the 1810 New York Revised Prices for Manufacturing Cabinet and Chairwork as "A Eliptic Veneered Card Table with four fast and one fly leg; the rail veneered, a bead or band along lower edge" which cost two pounds and ten pence to manufacture. The characteristic legs of many New York tables of the Federal era are uniform in appearance, with a turned ring at the crown and swelled vasiform feet. Turners often did piecework for several different shops, which may account for why tables with this type of leg are seen on labeled examples by craftsman such as Lannuier and John T. Dolan (see Hewitt, The Work of Many Hands (Yale, 1983), fig. 43; Montgomery, American Furniture (New York, 1966), fig. 306).

Related tables are illustrated in, the Girl Scout Loan Exhibition (New York, 1929), nos. 793 and 779. The latter table is also in, McLelland, Duncan Phyfe and the English Regency (New York, 1939), plate 129.