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Roll-top Desk (Bureau à cylindre)
- Date
- c. 1775/1785
- Medium
- veneered on oak principally with tulipwood and purplewood, with ebony (or wood stained to resemble ebony) and boxwood for stringing; gilded bronze mounts
- Dimensions
- overall: 121.3 x 128.2 x 78.2 cm (47 3/4 x 50 1/2 x 30 13/16 in.); overall (depth of table top): 34.8 cm (13 11/16 in.); overall (height to table top): 76.2 cm (30 in.)
- Location
- National Gallery of Art
Chicago citation
Jean-Henri Riesener, Roll-top Desk (Bureau à cylindre), c. 1775/1785, veneered on oak principally with tulipwood and purplewood, with ebony (or wood stained to resemble ebony) and boxwood for stringing; gilded bronze mounts, National Gallery of Art, Washington.
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