Card Table

Artist / Maker

Attributed to Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854)

City of Manufacture

New York

Date

c. 1820

Dimensions

29-1/4 x 35-3/4 x 18 in.

Medium

Primary woods: rosewood, satinwood and mahogany veneer

Secondary woods: mahogany, white pine, tulip poplar, maple, cherry, ebonized mahogany

Surface treatments: gilded gesso, vert antique, gilded cast brass, inlaid brass stringing, die-stamped brass inlay, replacement wool baize

Provenance

Ravenel Family, Charleston, SC; By descent to the Frost family, Charleston, SC; By descent to the Pringle family, Charleston, SC; By descent to Oliver Pringle Brown, Newnan, GA; Purchased by her cousin, William N. Banks Jr. (1924–2019), Newnan, GA, in 1968–69; Sale, Brunk Auctions, Asheville, NC, Sept. 12, 2020, lot 35; Purchased by Schrimshers, 2020.

Publications / Exhibition History

McInnis, Maurie D. and Robert A. Leath. “Beautiful Specimens, Elegant Patterns: New York Furniture for the Charleston Market, 1810-1840.” American Furniture. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for the Chipstone Foundation, 1996. p. 149-150.

Fairbanks, Jonathan L. and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates. American Furniture 1620 to the Present. New York: Richard Marek Publishers, 1981. p. 266.

Farnham, Katherine Gross. “Living with Antiques: The Gordon-Banks House in the Georgia Piedmont.” The Magazine Antiques 102, no. 3 (September 1972): p. 444.