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Card table

Object number

RIF2755

Maker

Maker Unknown

Dimensions

Closed: 27 1/2 × 29 3/4 × 14 1/2 in. (69.85 × 75.57 × 36.83 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

Chippendale

Provenance

Charles E. and E. L. Garvin, Fairfield, Connecticut, before 1977; consigned to Sotheby's, New York, November 17–19, 1977, lot 1214. Ann Woods, Ltd., Charlottesville, Virginia, 1978. Sotheby's, January 24–27, 1990, lot 1118. Sotheby's, January 30, and February 2, 1991, lot 1464

Associated names

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Garvin
Sotheby Parke Bernet
Ann Woods Ltd. Antiques & Interiors
Sotheby's

Bibliography

Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, The American Heritage Society Auction of Americana, sale cat. (November 17–19, 1977), lot 1214, ill.
"Ann Woods Ltd. advertisement," Antiques 114, no. 2 (August 1978): 202, ill.
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (January 24–27, 1990), lot 1118, ill.
Sotheby's, New York, Important Americana, sale cat. (January 30 and February 2, 1991), lot 1464, ill.
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), 284–285, 412, entry 41n10.