Center Table
Decorative Arts and Design
On View: Decorative Art, 19th Century, 4th Floor
MAKER
Unknown
MEDIUM
Rosewood, marble, cast iron
DATES
1855–1860
DIMENSIONS
27 1/2 x 43 1/8 x 25 1/16 in. (69.9 x 109.5 x 63.7 cm) (show scale)
MARKINGS
The inside of the frieze has an old paper label inscribed "A.S.Hatch (?)"
COLLECTIONS
Decorative Arts and Design
ACCESSION NUMBER
2013.1.2a-b
CREDIT LINE
Marie Bernice Bitzer Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
A rectangular center table (a) with removable white marble top (b) with light gray streaking, rounded corners and beveled edges. The rosewood skirt decorated throughout with evenly spaced quatrefoils above a carved molding of alternating elongated ovals and rounded disks, above a scalloped lower frieze terminating in acorn-shaped finials. The four corners of the table adorned with cast iron bearded full-faced masks above cast iron bulls’ legs, the tops decorated with a swirled wave-pattern and terminating in realistically rendered lower legs and hooves.
CONDITION: Overall good condition, retaining original dark patina of cast iron elements. Wood elements in good condition, except for a missing section of molding below the mask on one of the four corners of the table. Marble stained.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view in Decorative Art, 19th Century, 4th Floor
CAPTION
Unknown. Center Table, 1855–1860. Rosewood, marble, cast iron
, 27 1/2 x 43 1/8 x 25 1/16 in. (69.9 x 109.5 x 63.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Marie Bernice Bitzer Fund, 2013.1.2a-b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.2013.1.2.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, CUR.2013.1.2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2013
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