Library Table
Manufacturer
Tiffany Studios
Designer
Tiffany Studios
CultureAmerican
Dateca. 1900
MediumMahogany
DimensionsOverall: 29 1/2 x 59 1/2 x 96 in. (74.9 x 151.1 x 243.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.
Object number71.2304
Not on view
Label TextOval Desk/Library Table
American, probably designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany for his own use, late 19th century
Mahogany and other woods
Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.2304
This desk/library table is believed to have come from the Briars, which served as Louis Comfort Tiffany’s country home before the completion of Laurelton Hall in 1904. It appears in a photograph of the library at the Briars that was published in Dekorative Kunst in 1900 (right). The table is derived from a form that was popular in English neoclassical furniture at the turn of the 19th century. Its streamlined neoclassical ornament is playfully adapted in much of the same way that Tiffany appropriated and adapted 18th-century ornament in his other furniture designs. The rather eccentric tiered dentils bordering the table top match the dentils of the mantle.
Published ReferencesRobert Koch, LOUIS C. TIFFANY, REBEL IN GLASS, (Crown Publishers: New York, 1978, 2nd edition), p. 183 illus. Table mentioned on p. 132.
