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Card table
about 1815–20
Object Place: Boston or Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Medium/Technique
Mahogany with mahogany veneer, birch and pine, brass castors
Dimensions
Overall: 74.9 x 95.3 x 47 cm (29 1/2 x 37 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Barbara Boylston Bean
Accession Number1976.648
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Tables, stands, screens
DescriptionCard table with four legs; one swings out to support top when open. Sides are elaborately serpentine with molded edge on top. Skirt veneered with single bead around convex front center section, triple bead molding applied at lower edge. Turned legs project at corners and front legs are carved with leafage and star-punched. Below skirt legs have ring turnings, carved leafage, reeding that tapers to foot with flattened rignt turning and applied brass cup castors.
ProvenanceBequest of Barbara Boylston Bean, to the MFA in 1976.