Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Martin Carlin|Sèvres Manufactory|Nicolas Bulidon|Guillaume Noël|Marie-Claude Sophie Xhrouuet|Jacques-François Micaud
In the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Maker
- Martin Carlin|Sèvres Manufactory|Nicolas Bulidon|Guillaume Noël|Marie-Claude Sophie Xhrouuet|Jacques-François Micaud
- Date
- ca. 1773
- Medium
- Oak veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, holly, and ebonized holly; ten soft-paste porcelain plaques; gilt-bronze mounts; marble; velvet (not original)
- Dimensions
- Overall: 47 × 31 3/4 × 16 3/8 in. (119.4 × 80.6 × 41.6 cm)
- Form
- Desk
- Culture
- French, Paris and Sèvres
- Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Accession
- 58.75.44
- Credit line
- Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
