Gothic Revival Mahogany and Rosewood Center Table

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/25/2022

Attributed to Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892) New York, ca. 1845-1850, Possibly made by Alexander Roux, New York. With hexagonal marble top 29-1/2"h x 26-1/2"w x 42"d Similar examples can be found in the public collections of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago. A very fine example of this form known as "The Belmead Center Table" sold for a record $233,500 at the New Orleans Auction Gallery in September 2000. For a discussion and illustration of the the High Museum of Art’s table from the Virginia Carroll Crawford collection, see pages 60-61, Art & Enterprise; American Decorative Art 1825-1917, by Donald C. Pierce. Additional examples can been found illustrated in In Pointed Style: The Gothic Revival in America, 1800-1860, by Feld, Feld and Warren, pp. 82-83. Another from the collection of the late Lee B. Anderson pictured on page 41 of The Gothic Revival Style in America, 1830-1870, by Katherine S. Howe and David B. Warren.