A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY CARD-TABLE

Details

A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY CARD-TABLE
NEW YORK, 1790-1810

The D-shaped top with swept corners above a conforming skirt inlaid with five oval panels, two Prince-of-Wales plumes and reeding over a triple line-inlaid edge, on four square tapering legs with inlaid stringing and cuffs (some veneer damage and repair)--29in. high, 36¼in. wide, 18in. deep

Literature

V. Isabelle Miller, Furniture by New York Cabinetmakers, 1650-1860 (1956), p. 52, no. 76.

Exhibited

Museum of the City of New York, November 15, 1956 - March 3, 1957

Lot Essay

A pembroke table with similar inlay illustrated in Antiques, August, 1947, p. 85, bears the label of Michael Allison. Another pembroke table combining the same elements is illustrated in Israel Sack, Opportunities in American Antiques, brochure number Thirty,
October 1, 1977, p. 52, no. P4474.