A MINIATURE FEDERAL SATINWOOD AND INLAID MAHOGANY ROLL-TOP DESK

With its shaped skirt, French feet and oval inlay this unusual form exhibits classic Baltimore features. For a chest of drawers with a similar shaped skirt with two lobes forming a central cutout see Baltimore Furniture: The Work of Baltimore and Annapolis Cabinetmakers from 1760-1810 (Baltimore, 1947), p. 136, fig. 86.