Pier Table

Artist / Maker

Attributed to Anthony Gabriel Quervelle (1789–1856)

City of Manufacture

Philadelphia

Date

c. 1825

Dimensions

44 x 50 x 24 in.

Medium

Primary woods: mahogany, mahogany and rosewood veneer

Secondary woods: tulip poplar, pine

Surface treatments: gilding, vert antique, marble, mirror glass

Provenance

John Shelby, MD (1785–1859) and Anna Maria Green Minnick Shelby (1793–1873), Nashville and Edgefield, TN; To their daughter Ann Minnick Shelby Barrow Kendrick (1813–1876) and (1) George Washington Barrow (1807–1866)1 and (2) James Harvey Kendrick (1824–1886); To Kendrick’s son James Harvey Kendrick Jr. (1848–1914) and Jane Lytle Foster Kendrick (1848–1911); To their daughter Susan Cheatham Kendrick Goode (1869–1906) and Captain Sidney Goode (1866–1899); To their son James Kendrick Goode (1889–1957); To Goode’s second wife Mary Hord Wilson Goode (1900–1988), Mary Esther (Fort Walton Beach), FL; With Harold Paul Thames (1941–1996) and James Louden (dates unknown), Herron House Antiques, Montgomery, AL, before 1975; Judith Hollander (1941–2013) and Francis James Carey III (b. 1950), Penllyn, PA, by June 1975;2 Offered for sale at the Philadelphia Antiques Show, April 1990; With Priddy, Beckerdite, and Flanigan, 1990; Purchased by Schrimshers, 1990. Their only child, John Shelby Barrow, died at the age of twenty-seven in 1855. He had two children, John Shelby Barrow II (1851–1908) and a daughter who died as a toddler.

(1) John II moved to the Northeast. The two pier tables, a center table, and the couch did not descend in his family, possibly because his mother lived for twenty-one years longer than he did.

(2) It was acquired with the center table eventually purchased by Andy Warhol.

Publications / Exhibition History

Smith, Robert C. “The Furniture of Anthony G. Quervelle, Part 1: The Pier Tables.” The Magazine Antiques 103 (May 1973): 984–994.