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Card Table
Haines-Connelly School, Philadelphia
c 1800 - 1810

One of a pair; veneered brass casters on cast brass feet; saber legs with acanthus leaf carvings. Open lyre-shaped pedestal with acanthus carved standards and three brass rods as strings; Rectangular top with cut corners.

This card table was used by the Custis and Lee family at Arlington House.

Mahogany, metal, brass. H 73.8, W 31.9, L 92.5 cm
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial, ARHO 2033