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Card/Games
Card Table, Hepplewhite Games Table, Attributed to Langley Boardman
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Date/Period: 1800-1815
Measurement: Height: 28.75"; top open: 36" x 34"; top closed: 36" x 17"
Material: Mahogany, mahogany veneer, light wood inlay, basswood, birch, and eastern white pine
Condition: Very good, as depicted…water ring to top easily rectified by our expert.
Refrence: See Portsmouth Furniture – Masterworks from the New Hampshire
Seacoast by Brock Jobe, pp 257 -256, catalog number 61
Additional Information: This form, popular in Portsmouth…was inspired by a pier table
plan published by George Hepplewhite in 1788 [At least 21 tables as of 1993 follow
this pattern, all may have been produced by the same shop]. Bowed front, canted
corners, straight sides displaying string and bellflower inlays raised on
tapered legs continuing to spade feet.
$4,125.00
259-79
Federal Card Table, Seymour Games Table, Rare Tiger Maple Inlaid Legs
John and Thomas Seymour, Boston, Massachusetts
Date/Period: Circa 1790
Measurement: Height: 28.75"; top open: 36" x 34"; top closed: 36" x 17"
Material: Mahogany, tiger maple, white pine, mixed woods inlay
Condition: Excellent, missing glue block at fly rail joint
Additional Information: An inlaid mahogany card table attributed to the Seymour shop; the
shaped top with inlaid edge on a conforming shaped skirt displaying banded frieze
joining tiger maple inlaid double-tapering square legs. Displayed are stylistic
attributes and construction/joinery elements assigned to the Seymour shop
tradition such as front leg screw pockets, notched backboard, the double
laminated pine apron substructure, the elliptical front with blocked ends
and serpentine sides.
$6,400.00
259-78
Card Table, Federal games table, North Shore, Massachusetts
Date/Period: Circa 1800
Measurement: Height: 29.5"; Top Open; 33.5" x 35"; Top Closed: 16.75" x 35"
Material: Mahogany, birch veneer, white pine
Condition: Very good
Additional Information: The top with serpentine front, canted ovolo corners and half-
serpentine ends on a conforming skirt joining turned, and reeded legs.
$5,100.00
271-75
Table, Card Table, Serpentine Top, Fluted Edge, Molded Legs, 32-Inches Wide
Rhode Island
Date/Period: 1785-1795
Measurement: Height: 37.75"; width: 32"; depth open: 31.5
Material: Mahogany
Condition: Excellent
Additional Information: A diminutive Federal card table [or games table]; serpentine
top featuring notch-carved and molded edge above conforming gadrooned apron raised
on square molded legs; pierced brackets.
$2,475.00
605-137
Federal Card Table, Shaped Top, Inlay, Exceptional Wood
Boston
Date/Period: 1805-1815
Measurement: width: 35.5"; depth: 17.5"; height: 29.5"
Material: Mahogany, white pine
Condition: Excellent
Additional Information: An inlaid mahogany card table, featuring a shaped folding top
with half-serpentine ends, square corners centering ovoli above ring turned colonnettes;
elliptical front, on a conforming matched flame mahogany veneer inlaid frame having a
central mitered panel joining quarter-engaged vase and ring-turned reeded tapering
legs. Indecipherable maker’s signature or owner’s name in chalk under top.
$3,100.00
449-28
Card Table, Federal, Sheraton
Date/Period: 1805-1815
Measurement: Height: 29.75"; width: 36"; depth: 17.75"
Material: Mahogany, mahogany veneer, birch veneer, white pine secondary wood
Condition: Very good original condition including surface
Additional Information: Fold over top featuring highly figured wood; rectangular with
elliptic front, square corners, and half serpentine ends. The shaped top with light-and-
dark inlaid edge slightly projecting above the conforming shaped and inlaid apron; at the
center is featured an oval panel within a mitered rectangle bordered by light-and-dark
inlay. The apron blocks above legs display inlayed panels of birch veneers within
inlayed border. Table is raised on turned, reeded tapering legs. This table retains its
original surface which has developed a rich patina.
$5,700.00
270-189
Federal Games Table, Card Table, Reeded Fold-over Top
New England, Possibly Connecticut
Date/Period: Circa 1815
Measurement: Height: 30"; top: 35.5" x 34.75"
Material: Birch
Condition: Excellent
Additional Information: Elliptical top with blocked ends on conforming apron raised on
turned and reeded legs resting on ball feet.
$3,150.00
449-12
Federal Game Table, Card Table, Probably Massachusetts
Date/Period: Circa 1800-1815 - SOLD
Measurement: Height: 29.5"; top: 38" x 37.25"
Material: Beautiful mahogany, mixed woods inlay
Condition: Excellent
Additional Information: The top with serpentine front, ovolo corners and half-
serpentine ends on a conforming skirt inlaid with crossbanding and a central lozenge,
on reeded legs.
SOLD
659-220
Card Table, Games Table, Attributed to Lemuel Bishop, Charlotte, Vermont
Date/Period: Circa 1810 - SOLD
Measurement: Height: 28"; top closed: 34.5" x 15.5"; top open: 34.5" x 31"
Material: Cherry, poplar, white pine, mahogany banding, mixed woods inlays
Condition: Very good, trivial restorations. Scattered and minor inlay restorations to
ankle cuff and small section of apron; outside drawer guides replaced. Each drawer
bottom received a quarter inch strip of wood at the rear compensating wood shrinkage.
The wooden pin/pegs joining mortise and tenon joint [fly rail to leg] were replaced
suggesting that the tenon was restored. The swing leg displays a maker’s mistake;
initially a mortice was cut on wrong side [back face that rests against frame] then
filled. The color match of fillet is perfect. The fill piece perfectly matches leg…fill is
original to leg. The end grain terminus color [of fill] is new [fresh] whereas it was very
recently reduced-in-height as it was standing a tad proud and would have
damaged the top.
Much of the original color remains and is visible under newer surface.
Additional images available by request.
Additional Information: A rare and scarcely encountered form, one of the finest
Vermont games tables extant. Fold over rectangular top with double-string-inlay edges
slightly projects over plain apron having two short drawers; apron joins double-tapered
legs featuring icicle and string inlays. The drawers with applied cockbeaded molding,
the apron and tops of legs all are inlaid.
Literature: For a card table of similar form, see Kenneth Joel Zogry, The Best the
Country Affords - Vermont Furniture 1765-1850, p. 40, cat. 13. To view closely related
icicle inlay by the same maker see p. 80, cat. 26 of Rich and Tasty – Vermont Furniture
to 1850 by Jean Burks and Philip Zea.
SOLD
1079-46
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