Center Table (c.1860): Art, History and Details

Center Table (c.1860) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Gustave Herter Firm (American).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Gustave Herter was born in Germany and came to America about 1848. This table can be identified as his work because of its close resemblance to a table supplied by Herter about 1860 to the Victoria Mansion in Portland, Maine. The pictorial marquetry of the top may have been imported from France and incorporated into this table, probably made in New York.

Object facts

• Title: Center Table
• Date: c.1860
• Creator attribution: Gustave Herter Firm (American)
• Culture: America, New York
• Type: Furniture and woodwork
• Technique: rosewood with marquetry of various woods, brass inlay, and gilding
• Dimensions: Overall: 74.9 x 143.2 x 90.8 cm (29 1/2 x 56 3/8 x 35 3/4 in.)
• Collection: Furniture
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1984.39

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Turner, Evan H. “The Year in Review for 1984.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 72, no. 2 (April 1985): 163–207.
• Hawley, Henry. “American Furniture of the Mid-Nineteenth Century.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 74, no. 5 (May 1987): 186–215.

View the collection record

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