Card table

Status

Not on view

Date1740-1750

Geography Probably made - England

Medium/TechniqueCherry (legs, top, side rails, top front rail, drawer blades, outer and inner rear rails, drawer front, drawer runners), oak (drawer bottom, drawer walls, drawer back, drawer divider), beech (filler), leather

DimensionsOverall (closed): 28 in. x 33 3/8 in. x 15 1/4 in. (71.12 cm x 84.77 cm x 38.74 cm) Overall (open): 28 in. x 33 3/8 in. x 30 3/8 in. (71.12 cm x 84.77 cm x 77.15 cm)

Credit LineGift of Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, Victoria Bates and Mrs. Ross McFarland, 1970

Object numberM-2500

DescriptionSquare card table with a single scratch-beaded drawer on four cabriole legs (three fixed, left rear fly) with shell-carved knees and ogee knee blocks terminating in slipper feet on pads; two-board top with squared edges meets in a butt joint and is secured with brass hinges at sides, no leaf-edge tenons; overhanging fixed board screwed to frame; interior of top features a relieved playing surface covered in green leather and four carved counter wells set towards the right end of each side; rectangular frame has solid front and side rails and a double rear rail exhibiting filler construction, the outer or hinge rail is divided into two sections: the fixed hinge rail is nailed to a shim and is attached to the fly rail with a five-finger hinge; plane flyleg; reproduction handle with shaped brass backplate and bail handle at center of drawer front.
Published ReferencesAlice Winchester, "Living with antiques: The New Jersey home of Mrs. Joseph S. Frelinghuysen," The Magazine Antiques 74 (October 1958): 335.

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