Considering the Philadelphia Table

Go behind the scenes at The Met as curator Alyce Englund and conservator Marijn Manuels explore the history of a slab table from the Cadwalader family home in Philadelphia.

Slab table with black and green marble top, and dark, ornate wooden base

Slab table, 1765–75. Philadelphia. American. Mahogany, black walnut, yellow pine; marble, 32 3/8 x 48 1/4 x 23 1/4 in. (82.2 x 122.6 x 59.1 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1918 (18.110.27a, b)


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Slab table, Mahogany, black walnut, yellow pine; marble, American
American
1765–75