Cylinder-fall desk and chair

Date

ca. 1785–90

Medium

Mahogany and ebony, gilt-bronze mounts

Dimensions

Overall: 52 × 62 1/8 × 29 in. (132.1 × 157.8 × 73.7 cm)

Form

Chair

Culture

French or German

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accession

19.46a, b

Credit line

Gift of Mr. Jacques Seligmann of Paris, in memory of J.Pierpont Morgan, 1919