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Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour), Sèvres Manufactory|Martin Carlin|Jean-Jacques Pierre the Younger, ca. 1774, Oak veneer…
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Desk

Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour)

Sèvres Manufactory|Martin Carlin|Jean-Jacques Pierre the Younger · 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)
Accession
58.75.49
Credit line
Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
Culture
French, Paris and Sèvres
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