Card Table
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1775
notes: label: Description
content: Chippendale style folding card table: four cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet; square top with serpentine edges and out squared corners; plain skirt with serpentine bottom edge conforming to the top. Upper leaf, hinged at back, folds over the fixed lower leaf when closed; when open, upper half is supported by a swinging rear leg. One leg has physical marking: 6-238-184.
label: Description
content: Two paper tags are adhered to underside of table.
label: Description
content: First tag reads:
label: Description
content: Independence Hall Collection / Accession no. #184 951 (?) / Specimen no. 6xx8 / Catalogue no. Gertrude H. Camp Loan Collection / Object: Drop Leaf Table / Remarks: American-Mahogany, came originally from the Selden Plantation adjoining property of George Washington at Mt. Vernon
label: Description
content: Second tag reads:
label: Description
content: 27. Philadelphia Mahogany Card and Tea Table in Chippendale Style / American, Mid-18th Century / Of small size and exceptionally graceful design. The hinged and folding top and the frame cut attractive curves and supported by four slender cabriole legs which terminate in claw and ball feet. One of the legs is pivoted to support the hinged leaf. / Height, 28 ½ inches; size of top when open, 29 inches square / Originally owned by the Selden Family, Richmond, Virginia, and said to have been presented to Nellie Custis. Last owned by Mrs. N.R. Heath, who has bequeathed many items of Washingtonia to the National Museum, Washington D.C. / Exhibited at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, 1928. (No.184)
label: Description
content: Catalog card states that this card table was used by Clara S. Haas of Mount Kisco, New York ca 1929-1996.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Salem
label: used
content: United States: New York, Mount Kisco
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From the Estate of Clara S. Haas
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0072.01
label: accession number
content: 1998.0072
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0072.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: table, card
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: mahogany (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 72.3 cm x 75 cm x 37.2 cm; 28 7/16 in x 29 1/2 in x 14 5/8 in