TABLE
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
The table has a rectangular box-like top that is hinged and lifts up. There is a shallow drawer in the front with a metal pull. It stands on standards in the shape of a lyre with curving sides that end in swans heads. The top is made in marquetry with a motif set in a round medallion of two horns and a lyre and a book. On the front is a design in marquetry of two griffns and a vine scroll with rosettes with the same design on either end. The base is flat and solid, and the front edge curves inward. There is a round marquetry medallion with a rosette in the center of the bottom plinth.
- Object name:
- TABLE
- Made from:
- Wood -- metal
- Made in:
- Germany
- Date made:
- ca. 1830
- Size:
- H. 29 × W. 21 3/4 × D. 15 3/4 in. (73.7 × 55.2 × 40 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 33.53
- Class:
- FURNITURE
- Signature marks:
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973