Rolltop desk
David Roentgen
In the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Maker
- David Roentgen
- Date
- ca. 1780
- Medium
- Oak, pine, walnut, cherry, tulipwood, and mahogany (later drawers), veneered with maple hornbeam (both partially stained), tulipwood, burl wood (stained), mahogany, holly, walnut, and other woods; gilt bronze, brass, steel, and iron; marble; partially tooled and gilded leather
- Dimensions
- Overall: 44 7/8 × 45 3/4 × 26 1/2 in. (114 × 116.2 × 67.3 cm)
- Form
- Desk
- Culture
- German, Neuwied am Rhein
- Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Accession
- 58.75.55
- Credit line
- Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
