Pier Table

ca. 1815

Charles-Honoré Lannuier American, 1779-1819

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American, Level 2, West Wing

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About the Artwork

This table, designed to be placed against a wall, or pier, between two windows, is attributed to Charles-Honoré Lannuier, a French cabinetmaker who emigrated to New York in 1805 and became one of the leading proponents of the late neoclassical style in America. From the styles of the Directoire, Consulat, and early Empire, he created a New York style, exceedingly light and delicate compared to French examples, and far closer in spirit to the fashionable furniture of his Anglo-American contemporaries. With a top only thirty-eight inches wide, the table is unusually light, and has some ravishing details that may be unique; the brass lyres on the apron are inlaid into the ebony panels with contrasting rosewood, and the curves of the platform above the dolphins have delicate carved acanthus leaves finished in verd-antique (a green patina).

Title Pier Table

Artwork Date ca. 1815

Artist Charles-Honoré Lannuier

Life Dates 1779-1819

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Rosewood, marble, brass, gilt and verd antique

Dimensions Overall: 34 3/4 × 43 × 20 inches (88.3 × 109.2 × 50.8 cm)

Classification Furniture

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 1989.1

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1989-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Bulletin of the DIA 65, 2-3 (1989): p. 7 (fig. 4).

"American Decorative Arts Acquisitions 1985-2005." Bulletin of the DIA 81, 1-2 (2007): p. 54.

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attributed to Charles-Honoré Lannuier, Pier Table, ca. 1815, rosewood, marble, brass, gilt and verd antique. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1989.1.