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Writing table
Also titled Schrijftafel
David Roentgen (Herrnhaag, 1743–1807)
c. 1775 - c. 1780
- Medium
- bronze (metal), wood (plant material), rosewood (wood), rosewood (wood), oak (wood)
- Classification
- table
- Dimensions
- depth 51.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Under David Roentgen, the family cabinetmaking workshop in Neuwied (Germany) became the most famous in all of Europe. Like his father Abraham, he specialized in mechanically complex furniture; even this simple table is not opened with a key, but by means of a system of hidden buttons. The tabletop has a chinoiserie scene in marquetry.
