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Hugh Finlay and Della Valle Brothers

Center Table

1819

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Center Table

1819

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
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 -
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'

Maker

Hugh Finlay

1780–1829

American, 1781-1830; active Baltimore 1803-1830
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