A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION 
A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE

ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM WHITEHEAD (W. CIRCA 1792-1799), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1795

Details
A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY PEMBROKE TABLE
ATTRIBUTED TO WILLIAM WHITEHEAD (w. CIRCA 1792-1799), NEW YORK, CIRCA 1795
appears to retain an old and possibly original surface
28¼ in. high, 21½ in. wide, 32 in. deep
Provenance
Walter Vogel Fine American Antiques, Rochester, New York
Abram R. and Blanche M. Harpending, Rochester, New York
Sold, Sotheby's, New York, Abram R. and Blanche M. Harpending Collection, 1 February 1985, lot 614
Mr. and Mrs. Eddy Nicholson, Hampton Falls, New Hampshire
Sold, Christie's, New York, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eddy Nicholson, 27-28 January 1995, lot 1151
Literature
Helen Sheumaker and Shirley Teresa Wajda, Material Culture in America: Understanding Everyday Life (2007), p. 189.

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Lot Essay

With exquisite inlaid decoration, an attribution to William Whitehead (w. circa 1792-1799) and an old surface, this Pembroke table is an exceptional example of New York Neoclassicism from the late eighteenth century. The inlaid patera and line-and-bellflower inlay on the legs relate it to two sideboards labeled by Whitehead. Both the Fulton Family sideboard and companion knifeboxes, illustrated and discussed in Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 5, no. 29, pp. 1254-1255, as well as a labeled sideboard in a private collection in Barry Greenlaw, "American Furniture in Houston Collections, "The Magazine Antiques (September 1979), p. 553 share these inlay patterns. For two Pembroke tables with related inlay see Sack, American Antiques from Israel Sack Collection, vol. 5, no. 29, p. 1386, P4394; see also David Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses (New Haven, 1992), pp. 149-150, figs. 61, 62.
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