Physical Qualities
Wood, paint, gilt, plaster, brass, 29 3/4 H x 32 5/8 Diam. in. (75.6 x 82.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Friends of the American Wing Fund
Object Number
1992.214
Pedestal base, X-frame support, lacquered brass ring mounted under pedestal base (for decoration rather than strength); polychrome stencilled decoration of fruit and foliage on skirt of table, with a gilt band found at top and bottom of this motif; painted in enamels on the plaster-covered top is a scene of a ruined Greco-Roman temple set in a romantic landscape; painting is encircled by gilt beading and an oak leaf and acorn design.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1992; G.K.S. Bush; Mrs. William M. Poultney; Wilson Family of Baltimore
William Voss Elder, III, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, "Baltimore Painted Furniture", April 18-June 4, 1972, pp. 52-55.
Wendy A. Cooper, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, CLASSICAL TASTE IN AMERICA 1800-1840, June 27-September 26, 1993, p.106, 107, no.69, ill. p.106, circulated to Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Dr. David Park Curry, "PAINT! Japanned, Ebonised, Grained, and Polychromed Furniture in the Baltimore Museum of Art", December 2006 -
Wendy A. Cooper, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, CLASSICAL TASTE IN AMERICA 1800-1840, June 27-September 26, 1993, p.106, 107, no.69, ill. p.106, circulated to Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Dr. David Park Curry, "PAINT! Japanned, Ebonised, Grained, and Polychromed Furniture in the Baltimore Museum of Art", December 2006 -
Gregory Weidman, 'Furniture in Maryland', Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1984, p. 194.
Jeffery L. Meikle, 'The Oxford History of Art: Design in the USA,' Oxford: Oxford University Press, p.29, ill.
Inscribed: UPPER EDGE: on top of the skirt (in black paint) '2'
