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Card table

Object number

RIF1320

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Closed: 28 5/8 × 24 3/8 × 12 3/4 in. (72.71 × 61.91 × 32.39 cm)

Date

1780–90

Current location

Historic Deerfield, Inc.

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); pine (secondary)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

Helen Geier Flynt (1895–1986), Deerfield, Massachusetts, before 1956; given to Historic Deerfield, Inc., Massachusetts, by 1956

Associated names

Helen Geier Flynt

Bibliography

"Antiques at Old Deerfield," Antiques 70, no. 3 (September 1956): 15.
Dean A. Fales, Jr., The Furniture of Historic Deerfield (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1976), 132, fig. 272.
Elizabeth Stillinger, Historic Deerfield (New York: Dutton Studio Books, 1992), 76, fig. 8.
Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien, Harbor and Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710–1850 (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 2009), 411, entry 41n2.