Lot 163
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A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY CARD-TABLE

Details
A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY CARD-TABLE
1790-1810

With hinged D-shaped crossbanded top with inset rounded corners opening to a baize-lined playing surface over a conforming frieze centered by a rectangular plaque centered by an urn issuing scrolling foliage flanked by checkered banding and oval reserves decorated with acorns amid oak leaves above elaborately checkered banding, on square tapering legs with string inlay headed by icicles filled with pendant scrolling foliage over cuff inlay--29 1/2in. high, 35 3/4in. wide, 17 3/4in. deep

Lot Essay

This table's inlay is similar to that identified in Patricia E. Kane, The Work of Many Hands: Card Tables in Federal America, 1790-1820
(New Haven, 1982), p. 78, fig. 136.