Wig cabinet (cabinet de coiffure)

Medium

Oak and walnut veneered with ebony, ebonized wood, and marquetry of pewter and mother-of-pearl on horn over paint, simulating tortoiseshell; silver; brocaded damask (not original)

Dimensions

16 × 18 × 13 1/2 in. (40.6 × 45.7 × 34.3 cm)

Classification

Woodwork-Furniture

Culture

German, Künzelzau

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Purchase, Rogers Fund and Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2004

Accession Number

2004.417