Card table

Published/Created:: Boston, Suffolk county, Massachusetts, United States
ca. 1740–1750
Physical Description:: 28 1/2 x 32 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.
Materials:: Mahogany; brass
Notes:: Sack catalogue description: Queen Anne San Domingan mahogany turret-top card table, the frame with one drawer retaining the original bat wing brasses, cyma-shaped apron pendant; the knees are rounded to accentuate the rounding of the turrets with C-scrolled marginal borders and cyma-shaped three dimensional knee brackets, platformed pad feet, bronze patina. A group of turreted-frame tea tables and card tables of this distinctive formation can all be traced to the Boston area; some examples with this turret formation are illustrated in the following publications: Warren, Bayou Bend, no. 57 (card table), no. 58 (card table), and no. 61 (tea table); Downs, American Furniture, no. 370 (turret tea table); Hipkiss, The M. and M. Karolik Collection, no. 60 (tea table); Randall, American Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, no. 79 (card table), no. 81 (tea table); and Fales, The Furniture of Historic Deerfield, no. 315 (tea table).
Related objects: Book: David B. Warren, Bayou Bend: American Furniture, Paintings, and Silver from the Bayou Bend Collection (Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1975), no. 57, 58, 61. Book: Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods, in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum (New York: Macmillan, 1952), pl. 370. Book: Edwin J. Hipkiss, Eighteenth-Century American Arts: The M. and M. Karolik Collection of Paintings, Drawings, Engravings, Furniture &c. from 1720 to 1820 (Cambridge, Mass.: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1950), fig. 60. Book: Richard H. Randall, Jr., American Furniture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Meriden, Conn.: Meriden Gravure Co., 1965), pl. 79, 81. Book: Dean A. Fales, The Furniture of Historic Deerfield (New York: Dutton, 1976), pl. 315.
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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. 2005, pl. P5435.
Variant Titles:: Queen Anne mahogany turret-top card table
Topics:: Decoration and ornament -- Chippendale style
Furniture -- United States
Period/Style:: Chippendale
Culture:: American
Accession Number:: 5435
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, 1983
This information is taken from the Israel Sack Furniture Archive and may not reflect current scholarship.
Folder:: Folder 9923 cab1dr2 tiff
Yale Collection:: Yale University Art Gallery
Digital Collection:: Israel Sack Furniture Archive
oid pointer:: 10981808
OID:: 11873884
PID:: digcoll:848187