A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY ASTRAGAL-END WORKTABLE

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A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY ASTRAGAL-END WORKTABLE
NEW YORK, 1800-1815

The astragal shaped top above a conforming apron fitted with one short drawer and one sham drawer, each with line-inlaid surrounds, and two bowed short drawers at either end also with line-inlaid surrounds flanked by line-inlaid panels, over a gathered fabric basket above four square tapering legs with line-inlaid crossed stretchers, on sabre feet (stretcher replaced)--28 7/8in. high, 22 1/2in. wide, 11 1/2in. deep

Lot Essay

A similar form is illustrated in the fig. 686, The Girl Scout Catalogue, (New York, 1929), as well as one attributed to Duncan Phyfe, fig. 788. A comparable two-drawer example from Philadelphia or Baltimore is illustrated in Sack, American Antiques from the Israel Sack Collection, vol. 2, no. 15, p. 415, fig. 1049.