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Cabinetwork · 04-03

Mechanical table

1778

Mechanical table
Medium
Oak veneered with marquetry, gilt-bronze mounts
Date
1778
Dimensions
78.7 × 113 × 69.2 cm
Catalogue
04-03
Credit
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rogers Fund, 1933
Indexed

The top slides and the reading stand rises on a rack worked from below, so the mechanism is joinery rather than clockwork. Riesener delivered a run of these; the marquetry differs piece to piece, the movement does not.1

Footnotes

  1. Only the table catalogued here was examined; the run is known from the museum’s record of this one, accession 33.12. ↩

Mechanical table

Fig. 1 · Mechanical table

References

Provenance
  • Acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1933
Exhibited
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, on view in gallery 528
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