Cabinetwork · 04-01
Small writing desk
ca. 1768
- Medium
- Oak veneered with tulipwood and amaranth, seventeen porcelain plaques
- Date
- ca. 1768
- Dimensions
- 82.6 × 65.7 × 40.6 cm
- Catalogue
- 04-01
- Credit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
Seventeen soft-paste porcelain plaques are set into the veneer, each one fired to its own size, which means the cabinetwork was cut to the plaques and not the other way round.
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