Physical Qualities
Yellow pine with mahogany veneer, maple, oak; painted black with polychrome, and gilt and bronze decoration, 30 3/8 x 38 3/4 x 17 3/16 in. (77.2 x 98.4 x 43.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Friends of the American Wing Fund
Object Number
1977.83
This Federal style card table is part of a set of painted furniture made by John and Hugh Finlay for the Buchanan family of Baltimore. Sawtooth bands with vermiculation framing the panels on the table skirts and repeated on the edges of the table's top are a trademark of the Finlay shop. The house painted on the table was a summer retreat mentioned in family reminiscences as the family's country house in the Green Spring Valley, north of Baltimore. The detailed architectural views on the furniture are thought to have been done by landscapre artist Francis Guy (1760-1820), who is credited with similar views on another set of furniture owned by the Museum.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by purchase, 1977; by descent to Reverend S. Janney Hutton, Miles, Virginia; the Misses Sydney Claire (Mrs. Orlando Hutton) and Margaret Buchanan, Baltimore, Maryland; William Buchanan, Baltimore, Maryland, by 1804.
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.135-136, ill. 101.
Humphries, Lance. "Provenance, Patronage, and Perception: the Morris Suite of Baltimore Painted Furniture," "American Furniture," 2003, p. 145, figure 12-13.
