Photo: Courtesy Indianapolis Museum of Art, Gift of Eloise Grayston Hart
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Card table |
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Object numberRIF702 |
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MakerMaker Unknown |
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Dimensionsopen: 29 3/4 × 36 × 35 1/2 in. (75.565 × 91.44 × 90.17 cm) |
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Date17901810 |
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Current locationIndianapolis Museum of Art |
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GeographyMade in Rhode Island(view a map of Rhode Island) |
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MediumMahogany, ebony, and light wood inlay |
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MarksUnknown |
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InscriptionsUnknown |
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ProvenanceHarmen Van Slyck Visscher (born 1739), Schenectady and Albany, New York; by descent to his daughter, Mrs. Henry Hart (née Elizabeth Visscher, born 1757), Schenectady and Albany, New York; by descent to Eloise Grayson Hart, by 1981; given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, 1981 |
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Associated namesHarmen Van Slyck VisscherElizabeth Visscher Hart Hart family Eloise Grayston Hart |
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NotesSome Federal card tables made in Rhode Island feature bookend inlays at the tops of the legs with segmented icicles below. See the related examples below. |
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BibliographyEleanor H. Gustafson, "Museum Accessions," Antiques 120, no. 3 (September 1981): 530, ill. |