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Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Maker Attributed to Martin Carlin
Manufactory Sèvres Manufactory
Decorator Central plaque decorated by Edme François Bouillat père
ca. 1776
- Medium
- Oak veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, holly, and sycamore; six Sèvres soft-paste porcelain plaques and two painted tin plaques; gilt-bronze mounts; marble shelves; moiré silk
- Classification
- Woodwork-Furniture
- Dimensions
- 43 3/8 x 40 1/2 x 12 7/8 in. (110.1 x 102.9 x 32.7cm)
- Culture
- French
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 1976
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), 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
