Writing table (bureau plat)
Bernard II van Risenburgh
- Maker
- Bernard II van Risenburgh
- Date
- ca. 1745–50
- Medium
- Veneered on oak with ebony; mounts of chased and gilded bronze; top inlaid with later panels of black morocco and gilt-tooled leather
- Dimensions
- confirmed: 31 1/2 × 71 7/8 × 36 in. (80 × 182.6 × 91.4 cm)
- Form
- Table
- Culture
- French
- Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Accession
- 2019.283.5
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
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