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Anthony Gabriel Quervelle, United States Fashionable Cabinet Ware House (Philadelphia, 1825-1849), and others

Center Table

1825

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Physical Qualities Mahogany, mahogany veneer; white pine secondary wood; hardstones, brass, 30 1/8 H x 46 3/4 Diam. in. (76.5 x 118.7 cm.)
Credit Line Friends of the American Wing Fund; Decorative Arts Acquisitions Endowment established by The Friends of the American Wing; and purchase with exchange funds provided by eighteen Donors
Object Number 1990.73
The inset top surrounded by a gadrooned edge and finely veneered and ebonized banded apron, supported by five monopeds carved with grapes and vines resting on a conforming plinth enhanced by a convex five-pointed star, on five gilt brass cast and engine turned 'Toupie'' feet.
Wendy A. Cooper, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Classical Taste in America: 1800-1840, June 27-September 26, 1993, p. 60, ill. p. 60.

Inscribed: Has stencilled label of Anthony Gabriel Quervelle.

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