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Card table
Attributed to: Duncan Phyfe (American (born in Scotland), 1770–1854)
1810–20
Object Place: New York, New York
Medium/Technique
Mahogany, pine, brass
Dimensions
Overall: 74.9 x 91.4 x 48.3 cm (29 1/2 x 36 x 19 in.)
Credit Line
1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number58.19
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Tables, stands, screens
Catalogue Raisonné
Randall 102
DescriptionRectangular folding top with canted corners of crotch veneer, swivels over compartment lined in red velvet. Support of carved eagle on brass banded glove with outspread wings facing right. Four splayed legs with acanthus carving end in wooden claw feet; carved lion's head between front legs.
ProvenanceOwned by the Demarest family, branches of which were in Hackensack and New Brunswick, N.J., and White Plains, N.Y.; by 1957, with Israel Sack, Inc., New York; 1958, purchased by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Accession Date