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Mechanical Reading, Writing, and Toilette Table
Jean-François Oeben (French, born Germany, 1721 - 1763, master 1761)
about 1760
- Medium
- White oak veneered with bloodwood, kingwood, amaranth, padauk, barberry, holly, boxwood, sycamore, tulipwood, hornbeam, ebony, cedar; drawer of juniper; gilt-bronze mounts; brass and iron mechanism and lock; silk
- Classification
- Furniture
- Dimensions
- Object: 73 × 74 × 37.8 cm (28 3/4 × 29 1/8 × 14 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- French
- Museum
- J. Paul Getty Museum, Sculpture & Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of J. Paul Getty
- Rights
- CC0. Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content Program, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
