A FEDERAL EAGLE INLAID MAHOGANY TILT-TOP CANDLE STAND

For a nearly identical example with the same eagle inlay see Charles F. Montgomery, American Furniture of the Federal Period (New York, 1966), p. 386, no. 375. Montgomery attributed the Winterthur example to Charleston based a on a cellarette (no. 343) with the same inlay and cypress secondary wood. Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts attributes the same candlestand to Virginia in their online object database.