Federal Satinwood-inlaid Mahogany Card Table, New England, c. 1800.
Federal Satinwood-inlaid Mahogany Card Table,
New England, c. 1800.
Hinged leaf opens to form square top with ovolo corners and continuous banded edge, the fixed top joined with pocket screws to slightly overhang conforming apron, which has horizontal-laminated curved corners featuring later butterfly and spline joints, the exterior panels veneered and inlaid with oval and notched string borders at front, corners, and sides, the back legs double-pinned to outer apron rail, the proper right leg opening on box-hinged fly leaf to support extended top, all legs double-tapered and string-inlaid above patterned cuffs, closed, 88cm wide, 43cm deep, 73cm high (35 3/8in wide, 17 1/2in deep, 29 5/8in high).
Provenance
The collection of Eric van Rooy.
Nathan Liverant & Son, Colchester, Connecticut, 11 December 2010.
Literature
Patterned Inlay nos. 1, 56, and 81, in Benjamin A. Hewitt, et. al., The Work of Many Hands: Card Tables in Federal America, 1790-1820 (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), p. 74-5.
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Federal Satinwood-inlaid Mahogany Card Table,
New England, c. 1800.
Hinged leaf opens to form square top with ovolo corners and continuous banded edge, the fixed top joined with pocket screws to slightly overhang conforming apron, which has horizontal-laminated curved corners featuring later butterfly and spline joints, the exterior panels veneered and inlaid with oval and notched string borders at front, corners, and sides, the back legs double-pinned to outer apron rail, the proper right leg opening on box-hinged fly leaf to support extended top, all legs double-tapered and string-inlaid above patterned cuffs, closed, 88cm wide, 43cm deep, 73cm high (35 3/8in wide, 17 1/2in deep, 29 5/8in high).
Provenance
The collection of Eric van Rooy.
Nathan Liverant & Son, Colchester, Connecticut, 11 December 2010.
Literature
Patterned Inlay nos. 1, 56, and 81, in Benjamin A. Hewitt, et. al., The Work of Many Hands: Card Tables in Federal America, 1790-1820 (New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982), p. 74-5.
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