Card Table

Unknown Maker (possibly Charleston, South Carolina), American, 19th century

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about 1795-1805

Mahogany and possibly holly, Eastern white pine

Overall: 28 1/16 × 34 3/4 × 17 5/16 in. (71.2 × 88.3 × 43.9 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Margaret W. Hayward

F.954.158

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Furniture: Table

Research Area

Decorative Arts

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, in black crayon, under table: [illegible] / Smith / Charleston [?] NC

Publication History

Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 216, no. 189.

Provenance

Dr. Nathan Smith [1762-1829, founder of the Dartmouth Medical School], Hanover, New Hampshire; descended in his family to Margaret W. [Mrs. Harold B.] Hayward, Stoneham, Massachusetts and West Newbury, Vermont; given to present collection, 1954.

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