Fine Federal Inlaid and Figured Mahogany Games Table, Providence or Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, Circa 1800

retains a rich historic surface. 

Katrina Kipper, Queen Anne Cottage Antiques, Boston, Massachusetts;
Peter Eaton Antiques, Newbury, Massachusetts.

Secondary woods: white pine and chestnut For further information please contact the Americana Department at americana@sothebys.com or by phone at 212-606-7130.
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This is an exceptional Federal style card table embellished with a richly veneered façade and high quality inlays.  An image of this table is in the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Decorative Arts Photographic Collection (no. 66.1325).  For other card tables in the Providence/Pawtuxet school see: Christie's, New York, Important American Furniture, Silver, Prints, Folk Art and Decorative Arts, January 18, 1992, sale 7398, lot 498; Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan and Jack O'Brien, Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850 (Lebanon, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 2009), p. 138, pl. 43; and Eleanore Bradford Monahan, "Providence cabinetmakers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries," Antiques, May 1965, vol. 87, no. 5, pp. 575, fig. 5.