Card table
Newport, Rhode Island, 1760-1770
Mahogany, maple, and white pine
Lent by the Chipstone Foundation 1970.15

This is what the underside of a two-hundred year old table looks like. All of the components are the same color because they have been exposed to the same atmospheric conditions and light. The fine file marks on the undersides of the rail and knee blocks are typical of eighteenth-century Newport work.