VERY FINE FEDERAL INLAID AND FIGURED MAHOGANY GAMES TABLE, New York, Circa 1795

Depth open 35 in. When open, interior top has a patch measuring 2 ft x 1/4 inch with subsequent perpendicular restorations to ends of patch. Interior side of fly leaf with 2 foot restored crack in corresponding location to other patch and to a similar crack to exterior side of fly leaf. Top of the backside of gate leg restored (7 inches in length). Infill along construction lines where central frieze joins with proper left front leg. Inlay and painted decoration are in good condition.
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This elegantly inlaid card table was part of the neoclassical tradition in which New York craftsmen excelled. A very similar card table is illustrated in David L. Barquist, American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University, New Haven, 1992, pl. 30, cat. 108. Both tables have vertically striped veneers at the ends of the side rails and a central floral inlay flanked by horizontal ovals. Another similarly inlaid games table is at Winterthur and illustrated in Charles Montgomery, American Furniture The Federal Period, Winterthur Museum, 1966 no. 284.