Desk (bonheur du jour)
In the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Date
- ca. 1780–90
- Medium
- Wood, ivory, gilt bronze Carcass woods: mahogany and oak, with mahogany drawer linings Veneer woods include satinwood, mahogany, yewwood, tulipwood, rosewood, partridegewood (?), walnut, green-stained sycamore, and boxwood stringing
- Dimensions
- 41 5/16 × 34 7/8 × 18 5/8 in. (104.9 × 88.6 × 47.3 cm)
- Form
- Desk
- Culture
- British
- Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Accession
- 66.64.5
- Credit line
- From the Marion E. and Leonard A. Cohn Collection, Bequest of Marion E. Cohn, 1966
