"Belmead" Center table
Alexander Roux
c. 1846
Medium
Rosewood, oak, walnut, marble
Dimensions
72.4 × 104.1 × 90.2 cm (28 1/2 × 41 × 35 1/2 in.)
Classification
table
Department
Arts of the Americas
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
156073
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
In 1845 Alexander Jackson Davis designed Belmead, a magnificent Gothic Revival villa, for the prominent builder Philip St. George Cocke of Powhatan County, Virginia. In addition to designing Belmead’s exterior, Davis also designed furniture for the interior, notably a parlor set that included the side chairs (1998.565.1-2). The table descended in the Cocke family along with the parlor set and, remarkably, retains its original marble top and intricately carved tracery lantern. Fitted between the ...