The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 21, 2025
Center Table
c. 1875
designed and made by
(American)
Overall: 76.5 x 122 x 76.2 cm (30 1/8 x 48 1/16 x 30 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1987.53
Location: 208 American Gilded Age and Realism
Description
The general form of this table is based on 19th-century English pieces that are variously described as modern Gothic or Eastlakian. They tend to be rectilinear with incised ornament, and are often, as here, gilded. Combined with this form are decorative elements of Japanese derivation—the carved panel of the stretcher and the inlaid medallions on the frieze beneath the top. The elaborate marquetry, or inlay, of the top includes motifs of classical origin. The top was perhaps made in France and imported to America to be used on furniture made here.- Colonel Elverson, Philadelphia. Private collection, Pennsylvania. (Sotheby's, 13 September 1986, no. 131). (Margot Johnson, Inc., New York).
- Piña, Leslie. Furniture in History, 3000 B.C.–2000 A.D. Boston: Prentice Hall, 2010. p. 128.Howe, Katherine S. et al. Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994. Cat. 22; pp. 172–3, 221, 224Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1987.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 75, no. 2 (February 1988): 30–71. Reproduced: p. 58; Mentioned: p. 65, no. 22 www.jstor.org
- The Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (organizer) (August 21-October 22, 1994); High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (December 13, 1994-February 12, 1995); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (May 10-July 30, 1995).The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).
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