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Pair of Brass-Inlaid Carved Mahogany Games Tables

Description
Each with hinged and swiveling, radial, elliptic top with brass string inlay on the edges, above a conforming case with 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 top of the harps, the pedestal on a concave plinth raised on out-set hocked animal legs terminating in brass paw casters.

Origin:	United States, Pennsylvania
Period:	19th Century
Materials:	Inlaid Mahogany.
Condition:	Excellent.
Number of Pieces:	2-3
Styles / Movements:	Federal, Neoclassical, Sheraton
Book References:	Jonathan Fairbanks, Elizabeth Bidwell Bates, American Furniture 1620 to the Present (New York: Richard Marek, 1981), p.264.
Dealer Reference #:	T-Cd-1209141
Incollect Reference #:	117425