# Mechanical Reading, Writing, and Toilette Table

- By: Jean-François Oeben (French, born Germany, 1721 - 1763, master 1761)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of J. Paul Getty
- Museum: [J. Paul Getty Museum](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/103SCT)
- Rights: [CC0. Digital image courtesy of Getty's Open Content Program](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://media.getty.edu/iiif/image/78f0ab26-87b8-4dc2-8390-1086b8b84966/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)