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Rolltop desk
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Rolltop desk

Medium

Oak, pine, walnut, cherry, tulipwood, and mahogany (later drawers), veneered with maple hornbeam (both partially stained), tulipwood, burl wood (stained), mahogany, holly, walnut, and other woods; gilt bronze, brass, steel, and iron; marble; partially tooled and gilded leather

Dimensions

Overall: 44 7/8 × 45 3/4 × 26 1/2 in. (114 × 116.2 × 67.3 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958

Classification

Woodwork-Furniture

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Culture

German, Neuwied am Rhein

Rights

Public Domain

About David Roentgen

1743–1807Germany

German, Herrnhaag 1743–1807 Wiesbaden, master 1780