With their round corner, elliptical front, these card tables define a contour more closely identified with the Charleston school. The arrangement of their geometric facades is consistent with the local idiom, yet these tables surpass all known Charleston examples.

Their extravagant use of satinwood, adeptly laid out in a radiating pattern, further distinguish this pair of tables. The use of satinwood is highly unusual in American furniture. Admired for its shimmering, figured surface and rich, golden patina, this wood was rarely employed due to its expense, being two to three times greater than mahogany. As such, fewer than two dozen examples of American neoclassical furniture are known which employ this exotic wood.

This pair of card tables was obviously commissioned for a prominent individual. They have descended in the same family to the present generation—the ninth to reside in the Low Country.