Considering the Philadelphia Table

November 7, 2024

6 min. watch

This video is part of Conservation Stories, a documentary series that goes behind the scenes at The Met where a world-class team of curators and conservators maintain our global art collection.

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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