A CLASSICAL CARVED MAHOGANY CARD TABLE

LABELLED BY JOHN NEEDLES (1786-1878), BALTIMORE, 1815-1835

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A CLASSICAL CARVED MAHOGANY CARD TABLE
Labelled by John Needles (1786-1878), Baltimore, 1815-1835
The rectangular hinged top with reeded edge above a conforming apron with turned pendant drops at each corner over a ring-turned, faceted, urn pedestal support, on four reeded downswept legs terminating in leaf-decorated brass castors
28in. high, 36in. wide, 36in. deep (open)

拍品专文

John Needles set up his shop in Baltimore at 10 Hanover Street in 1810 after a five year apprenticeship under James Neal of Easton, Maryland. Of the approximately twenty four surviving forms documented to Needles, most are of curly-maple in the Classical style. Detailed entries in the Needles Family Record Book indicate that John Needles ran a large shop with considerable output.

Related examples can be found in Gregory Weidman, Furniture in Maryland 1740-1940 (Baltimore, 1984), p. 184, no. 156 and in Weidman, Classical Maryland 1815-1845 (Baltimore, April 16, 1993-September 25, 1993), p.115, fig. 140.