William Otto Glosnop was a cabinetmaker, carpenter, and architect who settled in Clarksville in Red River County in far northeast Texas. He entered this table in a Texas state fair in Austin in 1877, where it won a prize for being the best center table made in Texas of Texas wood. One look shows that he spared no effort to make his entry a show-stopper. Glosnop included a dazzling marquetry top, a laminated and turned central column, and whimsical spiny dolphin figures on the legs to display his impressive range of woodworking techniques.

Adapted from Lonn Taylor and David B. Warren. Texas Furniture: The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840–1880. Vol. 1, rev. ed. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2012.