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Rolltop desk
Maker David Roentgen (German, Herrnhaag 1743–1807 Wiesbaden, master 1780)
ca. 1780
- Medium
- Oak, pine, walnut, cherry, tulipwood, and mahogany (later drawers), veneered with maple hornbeam (both partially stained), tulipwood, burl wood (stained), mahogany, holly, walnut, and other woods; gilt bronze, brass, steel, and iron;…
- Classification
- Woodwork-Furniture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 44 7/8 × 45 3/4 × 26 1/2 in. (114 × 116.2 × 67.3 cm)
- Culture
- German
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
