Card Table
1789-1809
Physical Qualities
Mahogany, mahogany veneers, dark and light wood inlays, 29 1/4 x 37 7/8 x 17 3/8 in. (74.3 x 96.2 x 44.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Dorothy McIlvain Scott Collection
Object Number
2012.299
Sophisticated and well executed, this demilune (half moon shaped) Baltimore card table is thought to have descended in the family of Samuel Chase (1741-1811), who signed the Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland. George Washington later nominated Chase as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Two Chinese export plates bearing the Chase family crest are displayed on the mantelpiece in this gallery.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 2012; Dorothy McIlvain Scott, Baltimore
Elder III, William Voss and Jayne E. Stokes. American Furniture 1680-1880: From the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Museum of Art, 1987, p.133-134, ill. 99.
On View at the BMA
