A PAIR OF FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY CARD TABLES

BALTIMORE, 1790-1810

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A PAIR OF FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY CARD TABLES
baltimore, 1790-1810
Each with demi-lune hinged top with thumbmolded edge above a conforming apron inlaid with rectangular reserves and headed above each leg with inlaid flowering pots, all on four square tapering and cuffed legs with line-inlaid edges and inlaid pendant bell flowers
29½in. high, 35½in. wide, 16½in. deep (2)

Lot Essay

A demi-lune card table with similar flower-in-pot inlay and geometric lined reserves is in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and is recorded in the Winterthur Library: Decorative Arts Photographic Collection, 82.832. An additional and more elaborate pier table with flower-in-pot inlay and bell-flower inlay headed by a four-petalled flower is in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, is recorded in the Winterthur Library: Decorative Arts Photographic Collection, 64.1094, and is illustrated in Elder, American Furniture, 1680-1880 (Baltimore, 1987), no. 120. Additional flower-in-pot inlaid card tables are in the collections of Winterthur and the White House.