TABLE
Creator(s): Unknown (Cabinet Maker)
On view in: Marjorie Post's Bedroom
About this object
The rectangular table stands on four straight legs. The front has a frieze drawer and two doors concealing a compartment for storage and two drawers. The top is covered with a panel of primitive style marquetry representing in the center two books, an inkwell, two quill pens, some drafting tools, and a vase of flowers at either side. On the front the frieze drawer is decorated with row diamond-shaped clusters of leaves within rectangles. The doors below have a cluster of trophies- each containing two banners, a shield and a sword suspended from a ribbon. Each side has three vases and three leaf clusters. The back has no marquetry picture. The plain legs have brass collars at the top, and brass sabots.
- Object name:
- TABLE
- Made from:
- Wood marquetry -- gilt bronze -- brass
- Made in:
- Paris, France
- Date made:
- c. 1780
- Size:
- 74.9 x 60.3 x 34.3 cm (29 1/2 x 23 3/4 x 13 1/2 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 31.38
- Class:
- FURNITURE
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973