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This avant-garde French table is a statement of arrival in America

"It wasn't for poker at night with the boys."

"It wasn't for poker at night with the boys."

Curator Peter Kenny on a remarkable card table by Charles-Honoré Lannuier.

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Card table, Charles-Honoré Lannuier  American, Mahogany veneer, white pine, yellow poplar, gilded gesso, vert antique, and gilded brass, American
Charles-Honoré Lannuier
1817