Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Sèvres Manufactory|Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix

Maker

Sèvres Manufactory|Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix

Date

porcelain ca. 1764, secretary ca. 1775

Medium

Oak veneered with satin-wood, green and black-stained wood; gilt bronze, marble, soft-paste porcelain, silk

Dimensions

Overall: 50 1/2 × 33 5/8 × 14 in. (128.3 × 85.4 × 35.6 cm)

Form

Desk

Culture

French, Paris and Sèvres

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accession

58.75.52

Credit line

Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958