Kilian Brothers
Kilian Brothers competed with large New York cabinet makers like Pottier and Stymus and Herter Brothers by creating stylish Neo-Grec accent furnishings such as pedestals, side tables, reception chairs, easels, and music or folio stands. Designs generally employed a juxtapostion of machine-made walnut and ebonized structural elements with incised gilt decoration and black ground inlaid panels.
Two Kilian side tables, one conserved by the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, the other with Prudent Mallard’s (New Orleans) retailer’s label from the collection of H. L. Dufour have marquetry panels, surface decoration and leg terminals similar to the double portfolio stand, p4A item no. D9905996.