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Type: Decorative arts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1815-1819
Accession number: 14.21
Maker: Charles Honoré Lannuier(Opens in new tab) (French, 1779–1819)
Dimensions: 30 x 35 3/4 x 17 5/8 in. (76.2 x 90.8 x 44.8 cm.)
Medium: mahogany and rosewood veneer with brass inlay and gilding
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
Department: American Art
Find out more: View in the Art Museum catalog(Opens in new tab)

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Born and trained in France, Charles Honoré Lannuier moved to this country in 1803. He opened a shop in New York in which he introduced furniture in the latest French styles to an increasingly affluent American clientele. With its winged caryatid figure and its gilt paw feet with acanthus-covered columns, this Neoclassical card table embodies the cosmopolitan spirit and taste for luxury prevalent in urban America in the first quarter of the 19th century.

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