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Table

Maker
Julia Hall Rice, American, 1849–1919
Date
1876
Material
Walnut
made in
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, North and Central America
Classification
Furniture
Collection
Decorative Arts and Design
Current Location
On View, Gallery 335
Dimensions
29 1/2 × 38 × 20 1/2 in. (74.9 × 96.5 × 52.1 cm)
Credit Line
Mary Jo and David Abrahamson Endowment
Rights
Public Domain
Object Number
74:2019
NOTES
Nearly every surface of this table is embellished with carved flowers and other plant motifs. High-relief daisies and roses ornament the triangular ends, and low-relief ferns and vines frame the top.

In Midwestern cities like Cincinnati, Ohio, where this table was made, and St. Louis, Missouri, many women practiced woodcarving, china painting, and other decorative arts. A table carved by Julia Hall Rice, possibly this example, was included in the influential exhibition of decorative arts by Cincinnati women at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876.
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