Pair of Card Tables

Artist / Maker

Attributed to Anthony Gabriel Quervelle (1789–1856)

City of Manufacture

Philadelphia

Date

c. 1820–1825

Dimensions

29-1/2 x 38 x 19 in. (closed)

Medium

Primary woods: mahogany, mahogany and maple veneer

Secondary woods: cherry

Surface treatments: brass

Provenance

Moses Levy (1756–1826) and Mary Pearce Levy (1762–1850), Philadelphia; To their daughter Martha Mary Ann Levy Milligan (1798–1889) and John Jones Milligan (1795–1875), Wilmington, DE; To their son George Baldwin Milligan (1825–1889) and Sarah Gough Carroll Milligan; To their daughter Elise Tiffany Milligan Bancroft (1860–1937) and Robert Hale Bancroft (1843–1918), MA; To their daughter Elizabeth Hope Bancroft Winsor (1895–1964) and Alexander Winsor (1894–1966); To Elise Hope Winsor Palmer (1919–2003) and Sanford Denison Palmer Jr. (1919–1990); With Carswell Rush Berlin (b. 1952), New York; Robert Ignatius Owens (1946–2022) and Elizabeth Harte Owens (b. 1950), MA; With Clark Pearce, Essex, MA, 2019; Purchased by Schrimshers, 2019.

Publications / Exhibition History

Boor, Allison, et al. Philadelphia Empire Furniture. Hanover: University Press of New England, 2006. Fig. 74.

Miller, Jr., Edgar G. American Antique Furniture. New York: M. Barrows & Company, 1937. Vol. 2 pg. 108.