Table

A. and H. Lejambre

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Although New York firms dominated the production of luxury furniture during the 1870s and 1880s, the cabinetmaking and upholstery firm A. and H. Lejambre produced high-quality work, particularly in the Anglo- Japanesque style, in Philadelphia. The influence of the British reform designer E. W. Godwin, whose work echoes the principles of Japanese art and architecture, is evident not only in the table’s form but also in its turned spindles and interplay of solids and voids. The delicate inlaid butterfly and dragonfly on the tabletop reflect the restrained ornament favored by cabinetmakers who looked to the arts of Japan.

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