Center Table

c. 1862

Marquetry top by Joseph Cremer (French, active 1836–1878)
Paris, France
Table by unknown artist (American, 19th century)
New York

Status: On View, Gallery 174
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Joseph Cremer
Title: Center Table
Place: Paris (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: c. 1862
Medium: Rosewood, maple, tulip poplar, and white pine, with mother-of-pearl and ormolu
Inscriptions: Top signed: "J. Cremer"; table frame impressed with the number "1007"
Dimensions: 137.2 × 91.4 × 74.6 cm (54 × 36 × 29 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by 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
Reference Number: 1993.122
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Barbara Laux, “The Furniture Mounts of P.E. Guerin,” Magazine Antiques 161, 5 (May 2002), 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), 412 (ill.).
Donna Sapolin and Carla Breer Howard, “Marquetry,” Traditional Home 6, 5 (Nov. 1994), 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), 195–97, no. 89.

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.

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