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A related table with reeded edges and similar shape also with a plain facade is illustrated in Hewitt, The Work of Many Hands, Card-Tables in Federal America, (New Haven, 1982), fig. 49.
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A PAIR OF FEDERAL CURLY MAPLE AND CHERRY CARD-TABLES
PHILADELPHIA, 1800-1815
Each with serpentine sides and eliptic front decorated with a reeded edge above a conforming case detailed in mahogany banding, on turned and cylindrical legs and button feet--29 3/4in. high, 34in. wide, 16 1/4in. deep (2)
PHILADELPHIA, 1800-1815
Each with serpentine sides and eliptic front decorated with a reeded edge above a conforming case detailed in mahogany banding, on turned and cylindrical legs and button feet--29 3/4in. high, 34in. wide, 16 1/4in. deep (2)