Physical Qualities
Mahogany, yellow pine, white cedar. King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, marble top, Table: 31 3/4 x 22 x 41 1/4 in. (80.6 x 55.9 x 104.8 cm.)
Marble: 7/8 x 23 1/8 x 42 in. (2.2 x 58.7 x 106.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Mabel Frances Reeder
Object Number
1964.37
The marble top of this eighteenth-century Philadelphia table is of the marble quarried in King of Prussia, Chester County, Pennsylvania in the eighteenth century. It features cabriole legs, claw feet, and exquisite carvings on both the knee and knee brackets. The knee carvings of a central cabochon surrounded by scrolled foliage extends halfway down the leg, and the knee brackets have strongly modeled crossed-scroll foliage. The table also features heavy gadrooning, also very much in the Philadelphia style, applied only under the front apron.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, by bequest, 1964; Mabel Frances Reeder, by 1964; Clarence Reeder, Baltimore, Maryland.
Elder III, William Voss and Jayne E. Stokes. American Furniture 1680-1880: From the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore: Museum of Art, 1987, p.141-142, ill. 108.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The American Wing. Brochure. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, [198-?], unpaged.
Maker
Unidentified
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Chestertown
