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Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour)
Maker Martin Carlin (French, near Freiburg im Breisgau ca. 1730–1785 Paris)
Manufactory Porcelain plaques by Sèvres Manufactory
Decorator Decorated by Denis Levé
ca. 1768
- Medium
- Oak veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, and stained sycamore; mahogany; seventeen soft-paste porcelain plaques; gilt-bronze mounts; velvet (not original)
- Classification
- Woodwork-Furniture
- Dimensions
- Overall: 32 1/2 × 25 7/8 × 16 in. (82.6 × 65.7 × 40.6 cm)
- Culture
- French
- 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
