Secretary
Also titled Secretaire
c. 1780 - c. 1790
- Medium
- stoneware, maple (wood), copper (metal), satinwood (wood), wood (plant material), rosewood (wood), velvet (fabric weave), blindhout, oak (wood)
- Classification
- case furniture
- Dimensions
- height 150.5 cm x width 90.5 cm x depth 41.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Stichting tot Bevordering van de Belangen van het Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Adult profiles and older: its museum's description or title mentions nudity. How works are placed
About this work
Many desks of this type, veneered with light-coloured woods, were made in the Netherlands. This example is unusual for its large plaquettes of jasperware, a fine-grained pottery that imitates carved stone. The plaquettes came from the factory of Josiah Wedgwood in England. Wedgwood stoneware was very popular in the Netherlands. Perhaps this secretary served as a showpiece for Wedgwood’s agent in Amsterdam.
