A PAIR OF CLASSICAL MAHOGANY CARD TABLES

ATTRIBUTED TO THE SHOP OF DUNCAN PHYFE (1768-1854), NEW YORK CITY, 1815-1820

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A PAIR OF CLASSICAL MAHOGANY CARD TABLES
Attributed to the Shop of Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854), New York City, 1815-1820
Each with rectangular top and canted corners with banded edge swivelling above a conforming frame with molded edges and inlaid brass stringing over four ring, ball and reeded turned supports above a quadripartite base, on splayed legs with paw feet fitted with castors
29in. high, 36in. wide (open), 36in. deep (2)

Lot Essay

With almost identical reeded drum and ball-turned supports, the tables offered here are closely related to a card table documented to Duncan Phyfe by an 1816 bill of sale. Made for James Lefferts Brinckerhoff of New York City, this related card table is listed in Phyfe's bill and, along with a mate, valued at $135 (see Sloane, "A Duncan Phyfe bill and the furniture it documents," Antiques (May 1987), pp. 1106-1113).

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