TABLE (ONE OF A PAIR)
Creator(s): J. Darmanin & Sons (Manufacturer) , Unknown (Sculptor)
On view in: Pavilion
About this object
Silvered wooden base has four scroll like legs ending at the tops in the head of a fantastic beast. Four baroque style stretchers each with a rosette and with swags of leaves on the front and back tie legs together. Marble top central portion is black and border is mottled marble. In center is a still life picture of a group of classical vases and vessels and as a frame there is a strip of red marble around which is entwined a ribbon in white marble. The marble top bears the signature of the Maltese manufacturer J. Darmanin & Sons (active early 1800s-1942).
- Object name:
- TABLE (ONE OF A PAIR)
- Made from:
- Silvered wood -- marble
- Made in:
- Valletta, Malta
- Date made:
- 18th-mid 19th Century
- Size:
- 35 1/2 × 44 in. (90.2 × 111.8 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 32.17
- Class:
- FURNITURE
- Signature marks:
- SIGNATURE DARMANIN MALTA [on edge of marble top]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973