A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY CARD TABLE

Details

A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY CARD TABLE
BALTIMORE, 1795-1800

The hinged demi-lune top with molded edge and line-inlay above a conforming apron with line inlaid panels and band inlaid edge flanked by flower and leaf inlaid oval reserves, on square tapering legs with string inlay and cuffs
29½in. high, 36in. wide, 17¾in. deep

Provenance

John C. Toland, Baltimore
Anonymous gift, 1980

Exhibited

Williamsburg, Virginia, Dewitt Wallace Decorative Arts Gallery, 1989-1995

Lot Essay

A pembroke table with similar inlaid reserves was sold at Sotheby's, New York, October 23, 1994, lot 182. The band inlay on this piece illustrated in Benjamin A. Hewitt et al., The Work of Many Hands Card Tables in Federal America 1790-1820 (New Haven, 1982) p. 74, fig. 11.