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

Adam Weisweiler|Sèvres Manufactory|Edme François Bouillat père|Pierre Rémond|Josiah Wedgwood and Sons|Geneviève Taillandier

Maker

Adam Weisweiler|Sèvres Manufactory|Edme François Bouillat père|Pierre Rémond|Josiah Wedgwood and Sons|Geneviève Taillandier

Date

ca. 1787

Medium

Oak veneered with burl thuya, amaranth, mahogany, satinwood, holly, and ebonized holly; painted metal; one soft-paste porcelain plaque; fifteen jasper medallions; gilt-bronze mounts; marble; leather (not original)

Dimensions

Overall: 51 × 27 × 16 in. (129.5 × 68.6 × 40.6 cm)

Form

Desk

Culture

French, Paris and Sèvres

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Accession

58.75.57

Credit line

Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958