Pair of Brass-Mounted and Inlaid Games Tables

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Pair of Brass-Mounted and Inlaid Games Tables

About the Item

Philadelphia, circa 1815. Each with hinged and swiveling, radial, elliptic tops with brass string inlay on the edges, above a conforming case with a highly figured frieze and brass molded bottom edge. The case raised on a crisscrossed-lyre-form pedestal, the lyres having brass strings, ebony bases and brass bosses at the tops of the harps, the pedestal on a concave plinth raised on out-set animal hocked-legs terminating in brass paw casters. Woods: Mahogany, ebony, pine. Condition: Excellent: Some replaced brass stringing along the sides of the tops on both tables, a small section of brass molding replaced on the front of each table, four replaced brass bosses, ebony lyre keys and points replaced based on known design, small veneer patches to the edge of the plinths of both tables and various repairs to small imperfections surrounding the inlaid brass strings. Brass paw casters restored to their original lacquered appearance. Re-finished with shellac in the manner of the period. These crisscross-lyre tables with hocked legs are part of a group of tables by the same maker that include several work tables, card tables and two sofa tables, one illustrated in Jonathan Fairbanks and Elizabeth Bidwell Bates, American Furniture, 1620 to the Present (New York, Richard Marek, 1981), p. 264, the other in a New York collection. A games table by the same maker with a closely related lyre pedestal is in the collection of the Biggs Museum of American Art. The Philadelphia cabinet and chair makers' Union Book of Prices for manufacturing cabinet ware (1828), # three on plate two, shows a crossed-lyre design that corresponds exactly with the lyres on these table, no doubt, reflecting its use in this group of tables.

Dimensions:
Height: 30 in (76.2 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)Depth: 18.25 in (46.36 cm)
Style:
American Classical (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Brass,Ebony,Mahogany,Inlay
Place of Origin:
United States
Period:
1810-1819
Date of Manufacture:
1815-1820
Condition:
Re-finished with shellac in the manner of the period.
Seller Location:
New York, NY
Reference Number:
Seller: T-Cd-12091411stDibs: LU135623453142