Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour)
Sèvres Manufactory|Martin Carlin|Jean-Jacques Pierre the Younger
- Maker
- Sèvres Manufactory|Martin Carlin|Jean-Jacques Pierre the Younger
- Date
- ca. 1774
- Medium
- Oak veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, and stained sycamore; mahogany; seventeen soft-paste porcelain plaques; gilt-bronze mounts; velvet (not original)
- Dimensions
- Overall: 32 1/2 × 25 7/8 × 16 in. (82.6 × 65.7 × 40.6 cm)
- Form
- Desk
- Culture
- French, Paris and Sèvres
- Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Accession
- 58.75.49
- Credit line
- Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
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