Collection of Jean and Jim Barrow | May 20, 2023
Sat, May 20, 2023 09:00AM EDT
Lot 95
Rare and Important Baltimore Inlaid Demilune Federal Card Table
Estimate: $20,000 - $30,000
Bid Increments
| Price | Bid Increment |
|---|---|
| $0 | $25 |
| $100 | $50 |
| $1,000 | $100 |
| $2,000 | $200 |
| $3,000 | $250 |
| $5,000 | $500 |
| $10,000 | $1,000 |
| $20,000 | $2,000 |
| $50,000 | $5,000 |
| $100,000 | $10,000 |
Maryland, 1780-1810, figured solid mahogany D shaped top, figured mahogany oval inlaid skirt, leg tops set with pictorial pattern colored inlays, finely tapered legs set with tassel inlay, double gate legs, white pine, oak, and yellow pine secondary woods, 29-1/2 x 35-3/4 x 17-1/2 in.
Note: Colwill-McGehee invoice records "the distinctive pictorial "tassel-inlay" Satinwood panels are found on a very small group of Baltimore tables and sideboards (The Metropolitan Museum, Winterthur Museum, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, The Maryland Historical Society and a private collection). Combined with the additional pictorial oval inlay of an acorn and oak leaves inset above in the pilasters, this particular table is most closely associated with the nearly identical card table in the collection of the Boston Museum (possibly the mate to the table offered here); both tables also share the same apron embellishment of three elongated oval satinwood panels surrounded by lightwood rectangular line inlay with hollow cut corners."
For related examples, see Montgomery, American Furniture: The Federal Period in the Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum catalog 351.
The Museum of Fine Arts Boston table is illustrated in Fairbanks, Furniture 1620 to the Present, pg. 225
Condition
very good condition overall, refinished, typical scattered inlay and veneer cracks and repairs, including at skirt, one small possible veneer patch at one front leg (?), one front leg with two later screws at back joint with skirt, top with rear corner patch, other minor repairs at hinges, some feet possibly with later veneer facing(?), other scattered minor repairs and surface flaws
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Colwill-McGehee;
Collection of Jean and Jim Barrow
