About This Artwork
Marquetry top by Joseph Cremer (active 1836-1878) Paris, France
Table by unknown artist, New York
Center Tablec. 1862
Rosewood with tulip poplar, white pine, maple, other various inlaid woods, mother-of-pearl, and ormolu mounts
137.2 x 91.4 x 74.6 cm (54 x 36 x 29 3/8 in.)
Top signed: "J. Cremer"; table frame impressed with the number "1007"
Restricted gift of Jamee J. and Marshall Field, Mrs. Eric Oldberg, and the Winnetka Associates of the Woman's Board of the Art Institute; Americana, Brooks and Hope B. McCormick, J. Peter McCormick, and Mrs. Frank L. Sulzberger funds; Mary Waller Langhorne Endowment; and through prior acquisitions of Miss Ellen N. LaMotte, Elizabeth R. Vaughan, and the Wirt D. Walker Endowment, 1993.122
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Publication History
Barbara Laux, “The Furniture Mounts of P.E. Guerin,” Magazine Antiques 161, 5 (May 2002), pp. 140–49, pl. 8.
“Chicago’s Art Institute Lists Recent Acquisitions,” Antiques and The Arts Weekly (July 21, 1995), ill.
Magazine Antiques 142, 4 (Oct. 1992), p. 412 (ill.).
Donna Sapolin and Carla Breer Howard, “Marquetry,” Traditional Home 6, 5 (Nov. 1994), pp. 126–31 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 195-97, no. 89.
Ownership History
Unknown Long Island family, (?); sold to unknown New Jersey dealer, (?); sold to David Petrovsky, New York City; Peter Hill, East Lempster, New Hampshire, by 1993; sold to The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993.