Card Table
Attributed to
Shop of Marinus Willett and Jonathan Pearsee
(American, 1763 - ca. 1775)
Date1765-1785
MediumMahogany
DimensionsOverall: 27 3/4 × 34 × 16 3/16 inches (70.49 × 86.36 × 41.12 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number44-12
On View
On viewGallery Location
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DescriptionHinged table with square outset corners and four oval money pockets. Quadrangular cabriole legs terminating in ball and claw foot.ProvenanceMrs. Stephen Webb, Salem, MA;
Inherited by her granddaughter, Mrs. K. Sanders, Birchbrow, Haverhill, MA [1];
Henry V. Weil (1864–1943), New York [2];
Mrs. J. Amory Haskell (née Margaret Moore Riker, 1864–1942), Red Bank, NJ and New York, NY, by 1942;
Purchased at her posthumous sale, Important 18th Century American Furniture…Collected by the Late Mrs. J. Armory Haskell, Parke Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, April 26-29, 1944, lot 716, through French & Co. and Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1944.
NOTES:
[1] Important 18th Century American Furniture…Collected by the Late Mrs. J. Armory Haskell (New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1944), 208.
[2] Ibid.
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