A FINE FEDERAL INLAID MAHOGANY SECRETARY BOOKCASE IN TWO PARTS,probably Virginia or North Carolina, early 19th century. The upper section with an outset molded cornice and a crossbanded frieze over a front with a pair of sunken-panel doors, each panel inlaid with an oval reserve issuing looped stringing in the spandrels, opening to adjustable shelves, the outset lower section with a fall-front drawer opening to a baize-lined writing-surface and an interior fitted with a central arrangement of pigeon-holes and small drawers flanked on each side by a document box and prospect door edged with polychrome chevron banding, the door on the right opening to further small drawers, the edge of the dividers carved throughout with foliate banding, all over three long, graduated drawers, the fall- and drawer fronts cockbeaded, the fall-front inlaid with a similar oval reserve, the stiles intricately inlaid with looped, foliate stringing, all raised on an outset base with splayed bracket feet - 94 in. x 49 3/4 in. x 22 1/2 in. Estimate $6,000-9,000
