Elegant, versatile, and convenient furnishings, card tables were generally placed in rooms used for entertaining. Easily moved about a room, most comfortably accommodated two to four people who utilized them for a variety of tabletop games in addition to cards. Family history maintains this elegantly-shaped, concertina-action example was purchased from the estate of Martha Washington's granddaughter, Eliza Parke Custis Law, but whether the Washingtons originally owned it is debatable.