$1,800
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
American Furniture, Decorative & Folk Art
Auction: April 19, 2016 11:00:00 AM EDT
Provenance: Property Deaccessioned by the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association.
Acquired by Helen Ellery Sedgwick Mead (1861-1947) and presented to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association in 1942.
By tradition, this card table and a pair of girandole candlesticks were supposedly won in a wager by Robert Sedgwick, first speaker of the House of Representatives, from George Washington.