Moveable platform, Allen Bros. table
The attribution of this unusual table is based on similarities of detail, particularly the curtain rod–like element below the top, which also appears on a cabinet the firm displayed at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876. The style of the table is termed néo-Grec and refers to a new interest in classicism that emerged during the Second Empire in the 1860s in France and during the 1870s in the United States. The table’s white, or ivory, finish, a rare surviving example, is also French-inspired and looks back to examples from both the ancien régime of the eighteenth century and the Empire style popular under Napoleon I in the early nineteenth century.
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1994.153 |
Allen & Brother
Center Table, ca. 1875
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