ID: 700008604 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008604	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Card Table (card table; unknown American; 1740/1760; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; 1973.32)

Note: Made in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. The form of this table is most unusual. The table top is in two pieces: one a drop leaf, the other lifting up to provide access to a storage well, presumably for storing card-playing accoutrements. While it is possible for the entire top to be vertical, the lack of any device to support the upper half in an upright position shows that the table was not intended to be stored in a corner. The table is unquestionably from Rhode Island, not only because of its Newport provenance, but also because of its unmistakable Newport features, especially the use of dense, purple-hued mahogany and maple as a secondary wood.

Titles:

Card Table (preferred,C,U,English-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

card table [300039702] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name), Furnishings (hierarchy name), furnishings (works), <furnishings by form or function>, furniture, <furniture by form or function>, support furniture, tables (support furniture), <tables by function>)

Classifications:

furniture (preferred)

Creation Date: 1740/1760

Creator Display:

unknown American [preferred,VP]

unknown Colonial American (Colonial American cultural designation) [500203130]

Locations:

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 1973.32

Credit Line: Bequest of Mary B. Coggeshall, 1973

Address Note: On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 774

Other: Creation: Newport [7014221] Newport county (county), Rhode Island (state), United States (nation), North and Central America (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: mahogany, maple, white pine

	mahogany (wood) [300012221]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

	maple (wood) [300012236]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, hardwood)

	white pine (wood) [300343775]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, <wood and wood by product>, wood (plant material), <wood by composition or origin>, softwood, pine (wood))

Dimensions: 27 1/4 x 35 1/2 x 34 1/2 in. (69.2 x 90.2 x 87.6 cm)

Cultures:

Colonial American (preferred)

American

General Subject:

furnishings (preferred,isness)

Specific Subjects:

	card games (game sets) [300191227]
	.....(Objects Facet, Object Groupings and Systems (hierarchy name), object groupings, <object groupings by specific context>, recreational artifact groupings, <card| table and board game sets>) (AAT)

Provenance: Caleb Coggeshall, Newport, Rhode Island, before 1740 or Job Coggeshall, after 1733; Caleb Coggeshall, New York, until died 1847; George Dilwin Coggeshall, 1847–died 1891; Ellwood Walter Coggeshall, by 1891; Mary Coggeshall, Pleasantville, New York, until died 1973

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: decorative and utilitarian works

Sources and Contributors:
Card Table	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)