Desk (bonheur du jour)
ca. 1770–80
Medium
Harewood, rosewood, ebony, boxwood, satiné, purple-heart, mahogany
Dimensions
Overall: 40 1/2 × 29 × 15 1/2 in. (102.9 × 73.7 × 39.4 cm)
Classification
Woodwork-Furniture
Culture
British
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Fletcher Fund, 1929
Accession Number
29.114.2
About the Artist
Thomas Chippendale · 1718–1779
Thomas Chippendale, baptized on June 5, 1718, in Otley, Yorkshire, was born into a family steeped in woodworking traditions, the only child of joiner John Chippendale and Mary Drake. His father likely provided his initial hands-on training in cabinetmaking, supplemented by time in the workshop of York joiner Richard Wood, before Chippendale relocated to London around 1749. He married Catherine Red...