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Lot Essay
Half-round or demilune was the most popular shape for card tables in Federal Baltimore; this table exhibits several design and construction elements frequently seen on other tables from the region. These include two fly legs and two stationary rails, a medial brace, a leaf-edge tenon, horizontally laminated curved rails, and the use of oak for the fly and stationary rails, as well as knuckle hinges.
Unlike most tables from Baltimore, this table demonstrates a restrained ornamental scheme: the delicate rope stringing along both upper and lower edges of both the top and bottom boards of the top and single-tapered legs inlaid on two sides. A table with similar eagle inlay and comparable construction is in the collection at Winterthur Museum, and illustrated in Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture, The Federal Period (New York, 1966), p. 325, cat. no. 290. Another Baltimore demilune card table exhibiting inlaid eagle medallions is illustrated in an advertisement for Joe Kindig, Jr., in The Magazine Antiques (November 1935), p. 177.
As listed in her 1943 inventory, this card table was displayed in the anteroom to Room II in the new annex.
Unlike most tables from Baltimore, this table demonstrates a restrained ornamental scheme: the delicate rope stringing along both upper and lower edges of both the top and bottom boards of the top and single-tapered legs inlaid on two sides. A table with similar eagle inlay and comparable construction is in the collection at Winterthur Museum, and illustrated in Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture, The Federal Period (New York, 1966), p. 325, cat. no. 290. Another Baltimore demilune card table exhibiting inlaid eagle medallions is illustrated in an advertisement for Joe Kindig, Jr., in The Magazine Antiques (November 1935), p. 177.
As listed in her 1943 inventory, this card table was displayed in the anteroom to Room II in the new annex.