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Pier Table

Probably Anthony G. Quervelle American
1826–35
Not on view
Trained in the French guild, Quervelle migrated to Philadelphia in 1817 and produced exquisite late neoclassical furniture for notable patrons, including President Andrew Jackson. The Philadelphia Museum of Art possesses a drawing by Quervelle (PMA, 1995-12-13a,b) that closely resembles design elements employed in this pier table. Distantly, the design may have been inspired by a pier table in Pierre de La Mésangère,　Collection de meubles et objets de goût　(Paris, 1802), plate 10. The Sax family pier table compares to tables made by Quervelle for President Jackson’s White House East Room as well as the five monopodia legs of a labeled center table, 1827—1830, made for Edward Coleman, heir of an iron fortune, now in the collection of the Baltimore Museum.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Pier Table
  • Maker: Probably Anthony G. Quervelle (1789–1856)
  • Date: 1826–35
  • Geography: Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Mahogany, marble, paint
  • Dimensions: 38 1/2 × 47 1/2 × 22 in. (97.8 × 120.7 × 55.9 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of the Patricia M. Sax Trust, 2017
  • Object Number: 2017.656a, b
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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Center Table, Anthony G. Quervelle American, Mahogany, intarsia marble, brass, American
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Pier table, Joseph B. Barry and Son American, Mahogany, mahogany veneer, satinwood, amboyna, pine, gilt bronze with yellow poplar, American
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