RECTANGULAR TABLE
Creator(s): Unknown (Cabinet Maker)
Currently in storage
About this object
The table is in the late 18th-century French style (inspired by Weisweiler/Riesener). The top is mottled red marble. On all four sides are frieze decorations in ormolu. Intertwined garlands and bow and arrow form vertical motifs on front. A bird on right; topped by bows at corners; legs channeled and tapered downward to cubes at the extremities of the stretcher which is shaped like an intertwined H edged with twisted ormolu; a rosette in center.
- Object name:
- RECTANGULAR TABLE
- Made from:
- Wood -- marble -- ormolu
- Made in:
- Paris, France
- Date made:
- mid 19th-early 20th Century
- Size:
- H. 29 × W. 23 1/4 × D. 17 in. (73.7 × 59.1 × 43.2 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 31.108
- Class:
- FURNITURE
- Signature marks:
- MARK; INSCRIPTION
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973