Card table

Maker Charles Honoré Lannuier (French, 1779 - 1819)

Collections

American Decorative Arts

ClassificationsDECORATIVE ARTS

Date1815-1819

Mediummahogany and rosewood veneer with brass inlay and gilding

Dimensions30 x 35 3/4 x 17 5/8 in. (76.2 x 90.8 x 44.8 cm.)

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

Status

On view

Label TextBorn and trained in France, Charles Honoré Lannuier moved to this country in 1803. He opened a shop in New York in which he introduced furniture in the latest French styles to an increasingly affluent American clientele. With its winged caryatid figure and its gilt paw feet with acanthus-covered columns, this Neoclassical card table embodies the cosmopolitan spirit and taste for luxury prevalent in urban America in the first quarter of the 19th century.

Object number14.21

Exhibitions

American Made: Selections from The Huntington's Early American Art Collections