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
In the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 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
