Parker table in museum show NY & CA 2016-17

[Robert Preece]

http://www.mwpai.org/view/exhibitions/mwpai-on-the-road/398/charles-parker-company-meriden-connecticut-active-1832-1957-table-c-1885-and-meriden-silverplate-company-meriden-connecticut-active-1869-1898-mirror-c-1880-85

I just learned about this

> Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, August 27- December 18, 2016

> Crocker Museum of Art, Sacramento, California, February 12 – May 21, 2017.

There's another Parker design - the hanging shelf on the right side
http://www.mwpai.org/view/collections/19th-century-american-decorative-arts/

[Dean Romig]

I believe those of us who visited the Wilbur(?) Parker house in Meriden behind the Parker Family plot at the Rededication about four or five years ago, saw one of these very ornate tables among the hundreds of wonderful Parker Bros. artifacts in the collection of the current owners of the home.






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