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Card table

Object number

RIF1710

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Closed: 29 × 36 × 18 in. (73.66 × 91.44 × 45.72 cm)

Date

1780–1800

Current location

Unknown

Geography

Made in Newport, Rhode Island
(view a map of Rhode Island)

Medium

Mahogany

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Style

Hepplewhite, Federal

Provenance

Israel Sack, Inc., New York, 1989

Associated names

Israel Sack, Inc.

Notes

Some 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.

See also

Bibliography

American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: Highland House Publishers, 1957–1989), vol. 9, p. 2513, P6118, ill.