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Lean-to Writing Desk (secrétaire en pente)
c. 1750
veneered on oak (stained purple on the underside of the top) with tulipwood cut on the quarter, root-cut kingwood, and other end-cut woods; gilded bronze mounts
overall: 80 x 53.3 x 35.8 cm (31 1/2 x 21 x 14 1/8 in.)
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Bernard Vanrisamburgh II, Lean-to Writing Desk (secrétaire en pente), c. 1750, veneered on oak (stained purple on the underside of the top) with tulipwood cut on the quarter, root-cut kingwood, and other end-cut woods; gilded bronze mounts, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Dartabase holds 2 works by Bernard Vanrisamburgh II.
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Bernard Vanrisamburgh II, Lean-to Writing Desk (secrétaire en pente), c. 1750, veneered on oak (stained purple on the underside of the top) with tulipwood cut on the quarter, root-cut kingwood, and other end-cut woods; gilded bronze mounts, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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Bernard Vanrisamburgh II, Work and Writing Table (table en chiffonnière), c. 1750/1760, veneered partly on oak and partly on pine with tulipwood, purplewood, crosscut kingwood, and casuarina; gilded bronze mounts, National Gallery of Art, Washington.