With its clean lines and unadorned flattened arch apron centered by a single brass, this card-table demonstrates a simplicity in opposition to the highly carved furniture usually associated with Philadelphia at this period. A comparable gaming-table with trifid feet is illustrated in Joseph Downs, American Furniture: The Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, (New York, 1952), fig. 335, suggests this form is the function of a persisting, more conservative aesthetic. This idea is supported by an additional related card-table illustrated in Sack, American Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, no. 19, p. 713, fig. P3246, and dates to circa 1760-1780.