Desk (bonheur du jour)

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