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Card Table
The collection record classifies this work as furniture and woodwork. It is dated c. 1820. Recorded culture or place: American, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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- Museum title
- Card Table
- Date
- c. 1820
- Culture / origin
- American, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- Materials and technique
- mahogany with curly maple and ebony veneers, brass mounts and inlays, gilding
- Dimensions
- Overall: 75 x 90.2 x 45.1 cm (29 1/2 x 35 1/2 x 17 3/4 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1987.52
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
The lyre-shaped support of this finely made card table marks it as an example of American Federal furniture taking inspiration from classical antiquity for its decoration. When the top was folded closed, such tables were usually placed near a wall. Once the two halves of the top were unfolded, however, the entire upper portion of the table could be rotated until the supporting structure was again beneath the center and the enlarged surface was ready for play. The table was probably made by Michael Bouvier, a French cabinetmaker who worked in Philadelphia and was the first paternal American ancestor of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
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