Description:
Demi-lune card table with checkered chevron stringing at the centerline of the top leaf, a stationary leaf with undercut molded edge, inlaid triglyph motifs at the tops of the legs and crotch-mahogany veneer framed with lightwood stringing on the skirt, which is edged with light-dark-light stringing. This table is similar in design and execution to card tables made by Charlestown, Massachusetts, cabinetmaker Jacob Forster (1764-1838), who moved to Charlestown in 1786 from his birthplace, Berwick, Maine, via Watertown where he served an apprenticeship. He lived in Charlestown until his death; his son, Charles carried on the business with Edward Lawrence as "'Forster and Lawrence" and later included Abraham Crowninshield as '"Forster, Lawrence and Company." This circular table is unlabeled, but has the same curved rail construction with a simple veneered facade with rectangular panels of plain stringing as others made in his shop. It descended to the donor through the Dwight family of Springfield, possibly through the marriage of a member of the Dwight family to a member of the Winslow family of Boston. The table probably originates from the Winslow family.
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