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Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet), Sèvres Manufactory|Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix, porc…
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Desk

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

Sèvres Manufactory|Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix · 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)
Accession
58.75.52
Credit line
Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
Culture
French, Paris and Sèvres

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