Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
- Artist
- Adam Weisweiler
- Artist Dates
- 1744-1820
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Title
- Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
- Date
- c. 1787
- Medium
- oak veneered with burl thuya, amaranth, mahogany, satinwood, holly, and ebonized holly; painted metal; one soft-paste porcelain plaque; fifteen jasper medallions; gilt-bronze mounts; marble; leather (not original)
- Dimensions
- height: 51 in (129.5 cm); width: 27 in (68.6 cm); diameter: 16 in (40.6 cm)
- K Number
- K1506
- Repository
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- 58.75.57
- Notes