A87.10.9

• crafts and decorative art
• furniture
• turn of the century

Small rectilinear table with overhanging top, straight legs, deep apron all around, and four stretchers. Woods: mahogany, teak, paduk; floral inlay designs in mother-of-pearl, silver, and copper on lower left and upper right of table top and on front and back legs. Made for the Robert R. Blacker house, Pasadena by the Peter M. Hall Manufacturing Co., Pasadena.

Email correspondence from Edward Bosley to Julie Muniz on Jan. 27, 2009 (see object file):"[A87.10.9] is a serving table from the dining room (possibly breakfast room) of the Robert R. Blacker house (Greene & Greene, 1907), and the piece was made in 1909 by John and Peter Hall, based on a letter we have in the G&G Archives at the Huntington Library. http://dpg.lib.berkeley.edu/webdb/ggva/search?project=&doctype=documents&repository=usc&sort=project&pageno=&id=GGUSC-Greenefamily-1054~1&multipage=1&itemno=3The letter is date[ed] August 1909, though the "0" looks a lot like a "1". We know it to be 1909, however, from the postmark on the envelope and the fact that Chas. Greene was in London that year. The letter is addressed to him there. It's a beautiful piece of furniture, classic G&G really."