American Period Furniture in Museum Collections
a SAPFM viewer
In the collection of
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The photograph is served by Philadelphia Museum of Art and is not available from their site at the moment.
See it on the museum's own record ↗
Zoom
Photograph © Philadelphia Museum of Art
Full record at the museum ↗
Desk · Philadelphia
Reed Organ with Writing Table and Sewing and Dressing Box
Emilius Nicolai Scherr · Philadelphia · 1836-1837
Medium
Mahogany, mahogany veneer, maple, maple veneer, white pine; painted and gilded plaster; ivory, ebony, mother-of-pearl; white metal, brass, silvered glass; leather, wool baize, cut silk velvet
Accession
2010-195-1
View at Philadelphia Museum of Art ↗
Browse Philadelphia Museum of Art in the explorer
Measure
Save to a collection
The same form in other collections
The pieces nearest to this one across the eight museums — by form, region and date together, not by keyword.
Browse the collection →
Sewing and writing table
ca. 1815–30
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mahogany writing table
c. 1780 - c. 1785
Rijksmuseum
Writing Table and Bookcase
New York · 1790–1830
Yale University Art Gallery
Members have built this form
From the Member Gallery — original work, photographed by the people who made it.
27 box builds in the gallery →
Member Gallery
Octagonal box
John Champion · 2020 · Spalted Hackberry
Member Gallery
Coal Hog
Kenneth Johnson
Member Gallery
Treasure Box
W. Edwards