Card table

Creator:: John Seymour and Son, active ca. 1794-1816
Published/Created:: Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States
ca. 1790–1800
Physical Description:: 28 1/2 x 36 x 17 1/2 in.
Materials:: Mahogany; satinwood
Notes:: Sack catalogue description: Hepplewhite mahogany D-shaped card table, the frame veneered with divided panels of curly satinwood in crossbanded and inlaid borders, the tapered legs and plinths with similar panels ending in spade feet; the folding leaf is a restoration, made by and bearing the original label of John Seymour and Son, Cabinetmakers, Creek Street, Boston. This is the fourth labeled John Seymour piece to be discovered; the others are: 1) tambour desk, Winterthur, illustrated in Stoneman, John and Thomas Seymour, p. 54; 2) tambour desk, George A. Cluett collection, illustrated in Stoneman, John and Thomas Seymour, p. 50; and 3) inlaid card table, private collection, illustrated in American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 5, p. 1272, pl. P4225. All four labels are identical.
Related objects: Book: Vernon C. Stoneman, John and Thomas Seymour: Cabinet Makers in Boston, 1794–1816 (Boston, Mass.: Special Publications, 1959), p. 50, 54. Book: American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1990), vol. 5, p. 1272, pl. P4225.
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Bibliography: Book: American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1990), vol. 7, p. 1964, pl. P5232.
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YUAG catalogue note: A companion table by John Seymour and Son with an identical label is illustrated in American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 7, p. 1965, pl. P2326.
Variant Titles:: Hepplewhite mahogany D-shaped card table
Topics:: Decoration and ornament--Hepplewhite style
Furniture--United States
Period/Style:: Federal
Hepplewhite
Culture:: American
Accession Number:: 5232
Genre:: card tables (AAT)
Format:: Image
Physical Object
Content Type:: Furnishings & Decorative Arts
Prints & Photographs
Rights:: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Access Restrictions:: Public
Source Title:: Israel Sack, Inc., Archive
Source Created:: New York, New York, United States
1957–1990
Source Note:: Sack, 1974; Sack, 1983
This information is taken from the Israel Sack Furniture Archive and may not reflect current scholarship.
Folder:: Folder 10667 cab2dr3
Yale Collection:: Yale University Art Gallery
Digital Collection:: Israel Sack Furniture Archive
oid pointer:: 10955929
OID:: 11832849
PID:: digcoll:847365