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BALTIMORE, 1790-1810
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A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY DEMI-LUNE CARD TABLE
Baltimore, 1790-1810
The demi-lune hinged top with geometric stringing above a conforming frame with banded rectangular veneered panels over geometric stringing, on square tapering string-inlaid legs headed by flower-within-oval reserves and embellished with pendant bellflower inlay above inlaid cuffs
29in. high, 37in. wide, 17in. deep
Baltimore, 1790-1810
The demi-lune hinged top with geometric stringing above a conforming frame with banded rectangular veneered panels over geometric stringing, on square tapering string-inlaid legs headed by flower-within-oval reserves and embellished with pendant bellflower inlay above inlaid cuffs
29in. high, 37in. wide, 17in. deep
Sale room notice
Please note that the top features inlaid demi-lune floral-and-leaf inlaid reserves on the top surface as well as on the interior surfaces of each leaf. Similar inlay is seen on a Baltimore chest-of-drawers now in the collection of Winterthur Museum and illustrated in Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period (New York, 1966), cat. 141, pp.184-185 and inlay detail 124, p. 39 and a Baltimore card table now in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum and illustrated in Hewitt et al, The Work of Many Hands: Card Tables in Federal America, 1790-1820 (New Haven, 1982), cat. 52, pp. 171-173.