Card Table

Duncan Phyfe

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

With their bold yet simple shape, these pillared card tables (see also 68.94.1) with rounded corners anticipate the simplified Grecian style of the 1830s. Possibly made in Duncan Phyfe's workshop, they are in the French Restoration style, which coincided in the United States with the Greek Revival mode in architecture. Veneered with exotic rosewood and inlaid with brass, the tables are further enriched with gilded brass ornaments centered on the aprons and with bronzed and gilded antique-style feet.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art