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SPECIMEN MARBLE PEDESTAL TABLE

SPECIMEN MARBLE PEDESTAL TABLE

Cat. no.: 31.51

Artist: Unknown

Date: 1800-1840

The top is set with a radiating pattern of different colored marbles held together by a rim in ormolu decorated on the top side with a continuous row of acanthus leaves and outside by a grapevine...

DROP-FRONT SECRETARY (SECRETAIRE À ABBATANT)

DROP-FRONT SECRETARY (SECRETAIRE À ABBATANT)

Cat. no.: 31.7

Artist: Mathias Wolff (Attributed to)

Date: c. 1775

The secretary has a drawer at the top faced with a design found also at the top of the sides -with ovals containing quatrefoils, alternating with acanthus leaves; in the center of the drawer is a...

COMMODE (CHEST OF DRAWERS)

COMMODE (CHEST OF DRAWERS)

Cat. no.: 31.8

Artist: Godefroy Dester (Maker)

Date: ca. 1780

The top is in reddish mottled marble. Across the top of the front, in three sections, and on each side is a frieze in gilt bronze with a bold design of interlaced big and small circles enclosing...

COMMODE (CHEST OF DRAWERS)

COMMODE (CHEST OF DRAWERS)

Cat. no.: 31.9

Artist: Pierre Macret (Maker)

Date: c. 1770

Covered with a gray and white marble top, this rectangular commode has a tripartite front with a central projecting section. Three small drawers across the top are faced with vine scrolls in gilt...

TABLE

TABLE

Cat. no.: 32.15

Artist: Hoessrich & Woerffel (Attributed to)

Date: late 19th Century

Four legs are winged monsters, each with one leg, and set with an oval of malachite on each monsters breast. Bronze frame for the top has a scroll cartouche on each long side with an oval of...

TABLE

TABLE

Cat. no.: 32.19

Artist: Unknown (Cabinet Maker)

Date: 19th c.

These two pieces of tabletop and legs do not go together. Table has four rectangular legs all veneered in wood and also outlined in bronze and with capitals in lacquered bronze. Stretcher between...

CABINET

CABINET

Cat. no.: 32.22

Artist: Ippolit Antonovich Monigetti (Designer)

Date: 1873

The chest was a twenty-fifth wedding anniversary gift from Alexander II and his wife Maria Alexandrovna to the Emperor’s brother, the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich and his wife, Grand...

TABLE

TABLE

Cat. no.: 32.3

Artist: Unknown (Manufacturer)

Date: mid 19th-mid 20th Century

Circular table with three feet. Top has a border of ormolu with a plaque of Ural Mountain malachite. Three legs in steel with a border of beading in ormolu and with a goat's head with ring in...

WRITING TABLE

WRITING TABLE

Cat. no.: 32.31

Artist: Workshop of Heinrich Daniel Gambs and Jonathan Ott (Attributed to)

Date: c. 1795

The workshop of Gambs and Ott specialized in fine neoclassical furniture in the late 1700s and early 1800s. To decorate mahogany pieces they often employed panels of verre églomisé, or panels...

MALACHITE TABLE

MALACHITE TABLE

Cat. no.: 32.33

Artist: Demidov Lapidary Factory (Manufacturer)

Date: 1851

In 2006, Hillwood discovered this rococo table veneered with malachite at auction in London. The table had once belonged to Marjorie Merriweather Post. A Vogue article published in 1945 includes...

ROLLTOP DESK

ROLLTOP DESK

Cat. no.: 33.222

Artist: Abraham Roentgen (Cabinet Maker)

Date: 1770-1774

Although made in what is now part of Germany, this cylinder desk can be inscribed within the French tradition of furniture making. Abraham Roentgen’s workshop in Neuwied on the Rhine was...

ROUND TABLE

ROUND TABLE

Cat. no.: 33.225

Artist: Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin (Manufacturer)

Date: 1817

The porcelain top features profiles of Princess Charlotte (Alexandra Fedorovna) of Prussia and Grand Duke Nicholas (the future Nicholas I) on the bottom, while those of Emperor Alexander I,...

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