17 x 37 1/4 x 26 1/4 in (43.2 x 94.6 x 66.7 cm) fully extended
Casket carrier manufactured by Champion Chemical Company, USA, together with after-market custom glass table top. Base engraved with ‘Champion Chemical Company, Springfield Ohio’.
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$6,000 - 8,000
Sold for $15,000
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The base of this table, a casket carrier, perfectly embodies a rare, transitional moment in American decorative art history. ‘Token’ remnants of decoration, in the form of small cast ornamentations, are unapologetically and almost begrudgingly screwed onto an industrially produced folding aluminum frame, marking the sometimes-tentative transition to industrial Modernism.