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