Pier Table

Charles-Honoré Lannuier

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This pier table blends French neoclassical furniture design with American traditions in its exquisitely carved caryatids and gilt-brass mounts. Lannuier was a talented, Parisian-trained ebenisté (cabinetmaker) who migrated to New York and found patronage among the American elite and French exiles fleeing the Revolution. Lannuier crafted this pier table, and its companion in a private collection, for Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont (1760—1840), the scion of a wealthy, titled family of merchants, for use in his mansion along the Black River near Watertown, New York.

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