Object Record
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Catalog Number |
0008 (1-2) |
Object Name |
Table, Card |
Date |
1817 |
Description |
Pair of Grecian-style double elliptical swivel-top card tables with lyre-shaped dolphin/dragon pedestals and four flaring legs with molded top edges. The tops are embellished by the use of rayed veneers on the outside surfaces of the tops (the surface that shows when the tables are closed.) The inside surfaces, which show when the tables are open, are lined in leather. There is acanthus leaf carving on the tops of the legs and brass paw-foot casters at the bottoms. |
Artist |
Connelly, Henry |
Year Range from |
1817 |
Made |
Philadelphia PA |
Material |
Mahogany/Eastern White Pine |
Collection |
Stephen Girard Artifact Collection |
Height (in) |
30.000 |
Width (in) |
36.375 |
Depth (in) |
19.500 |
Related Publications |
Schwarz, The Stephen Girard Collection A Selective Catalog # 23. Hornor, Blue Book of Philadelphia Furniture, 1935. p. 254 Montgomery, American Furniture: the Federal Period, 1966. p. 339 Wick, Stephen Girard: A Patron of the Philadelphia Furniture trade, Thesis: University of Delaware, 1977. pp 52, 105, 109, 264 (illus.) Cooper, Classical Taste in America, 1993, #109. Carson,"The Editor's Attic" Antiques XXXIII #1 (Jan., 1938) Carson, "John Connelly and Ephraim Haines, Phila. Furniture Makers," Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin, XLVIII (Spring, 1953) p. 40 & 44 Philadelphia: Three Centuries of American Art. PMS, 1976. pp211-213 (illus.) Snyder. Philadelphia Furniture and Its Makers. 1975. pp84-87 (illus.) |
Source |
Girard, Stephen |
Received as |
Bequest |
Other number |
GAF. 19-20 |
Used |
Stephen Girard's Water Street Townhouse |