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Desk (bonheur du jour)
Maker Martin Carlin (French, near Freiburg im Breisgau ca. 1730–1785 Paris)
Manufactory Porcelain plaques by Sèvres Manufactory
Decorator Plaques decorated by Antoine-Toussaint Cornailles
Decorator and Nicquet
ca. 1770
- Medium
- Oak, mahogany, tulipwood, sycamore, ebony, box and harewood, gilt-bronze mounts, soft-paste porcelain
- Classification
- Woodwork-Furniture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 32 1/4 × 26 1/4 × 15 3/4 in. (81.9 × 66.7 × 40 cm)
- Culture
- French
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
- 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
