A FEDERAL SATINWOOD-INLAID MAHOGANY FIVE-LEG CARD TABLE

A beautiful New York card table with floral ornament, this piece may be the mate to the table pictured in American Tables and Looking Glasses in the Mabel Brady Garvan and Other Collections at Yale University (New Haven, 1992), pp. 210-211, cat. 108. It and a third example bear identical design (see Albert Sack, "Good, Better, Best in American Eighteenth-Century Furniture," The Magazine Antiques (December 1948), pp. 422-423, fig. 6). For a pair of card tables with related floral reserves, see Sotheby's, New York, 24-27 January, 1990, lot 1190.