A FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY DEMILUNE CARD TABLE

With urn-inlaid legs and delicate flowering stems on the front rail, this card table illustrates motifs seen on both Newport and Providence forms of the Federal period. Newport cabinetmakers Thomas and Stephen Goddard and Holmes Weaver employed similar urns, but with different shaping and detailing, do not appear to have been made by the hand that create those on the table offered here. The cornucopia on the front rail is an unusual detail, but the issuing stems are similar to that seen on a number of small Providence sideboards, previously associated with the cabinetmaker Thomas Howard.