Étagère
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1855
name: label: Maker
content: Julius Dessoir, active NY, 1842 - 1865
notes: label: Description
content: Table is oval half-round in shape, supported on four scroll legs. Curved stretcher with openwork crest. Shaped plinth surmounted by two shelves of graduated size with shaped profile edges, supported on pierced fretwork brackets. Back of two upper shelves fitted with mirror glass. Top of second shelf surmounted by scrollwork with central escutcheon and high relief female head. Finial above head missing. Central drawer on table front, with front panel carved with arabesques and grape clusters. Interior of drawer of maple, with rectangular brass locking device.
place: label: made in
content: New York, New York, USA
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1937-45-6
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Étagère
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Rosewood, maple, glass mirror, brass
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 160.5 x 151 x 63cm (63 3/16 x 59 7/16 x 24 13/16in.)