Wig cabinet (cabinet de coiffure)
Johann Daniel Sommer II
- Maker
- Johann Daniel Sommer II
- Date
- ca. 1685
- Medium
- Oak and walnut veneered with ebony, ebonized wood, and marquetry of pewter and mother-of-pearl on horn over paint, simulating tortoiseshell; silver; brocaded damask (not original)
- Dimensions
- 16 × 18 × 13 1/2 in. (40.6 × 45.7 × 34.3 cm)
- Form
- Case Piece
- Culture
- German, Künzelzau
- Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Accession
- 2004.417
- Credit line
- Purchase, Rogers Fund and Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2004
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