Details

Title

Center Table

Artist/Maker

Alexander Jackson Davis (American, 1803-1892), attributed designer
Unidentified American Maker, New York

Date

ca. 1850

Medium

Rosewood, cherry, white marble, and brass

Dimensions

30 x 37 x 43 inches

Credit

Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection

Accession #

1983.190

On View

On View - Stent Family Wing, Level 3, Gallery 305

Gothic architectural details—six clustered columns, three beaded trefoil terminals on the triangular base, and the ogee-arched scallop skirt—have been imaginatively combined with a hexagonal marble top to create this center table. A quintessential mid-nineteenth-century parlor furniture form—center tables were believed to be the symbol of the family circle—this table epitomizes the period practice of adapting historical elements into furniture design.

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