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Belmead Center Table

Alexander Jackson Davis (American, 1803–1892)

Belmead Center Table, Alexander Jackson Davis (American, 1803–1892), c. 1846, Rosewood, oak, walnut, marble
Maker
Alexander Jackson Davis (American, 1803–1892)
Date
c. 1846
Medium
Rosewood, oak, walnut, marble
Dimensions
72.4 × 104.1 × 90.2 cm (28 1/2 × 41 × 35 1/2 in.)
Form
Table
Origin
New York City
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession
2000.340
Credit line
Gift of The Antiquarian Society
In 1845 Alexander Jackson Davis designed Belmead, a Gothic Revival villa, for the builder Philip St. George Cocke of Powhatan County, Virginia. In addition to designing Belmead's exterior, Davis designed furniture for the interior, notably a parlor set that included side chairs. The table descended in the Cocke family along with the parlor set and, remarkably, retains its original marble top and intricately carved tracery lantern.
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