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Card table

Object number

RIF2710

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Closed: 28 1/4 × 31 1/4 × 15 1/4 in. (71.76 × 79.38 × 38.74 cm)

Date

1760–70

Current location

Winterthur Museum, Garden, and Library

Geography

Made in Massachusetts, formerly said to have been made in Rhode Island
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Medium

Mahogany (primary); white pine (table lining); maple (back, stained red)

Marks

Unknown

Inscriptions

Unknown

Provenance

Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969), Winterthur, Delaware, by 1952; given to the Winterthur Museum, by 1969

Associated names

Henry Francis du Pont

Bibliography

Joseph Downs, American Furniture: Queen Anne and Chippendale Periods in the Henry Francis DuPont Winterthur Museum (New York: MacMillan Company, 1952), no. 347, ill.