Desk (Secretary)

Date

ca. 1730–35

Medium

Pine; carved, painted, gilded, and varnished linden wood decorated with colored decoupage prints; mirror glass; the inside of the fall front lined with silk not original to the secretary

Dimensions

Overall: 102 x 44 x 23 in. (259.1 x 111.8 x 58.4 cm)

Form

Desk

Culture

Italian, Venice

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accession

25.134.1a, b

Credit line

Fletcher Fund, 1925