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Elevation of a Writing Desk
Gilles-Marie Oppenordt1675–1700
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Flat writing desk with scrolled legs composed of lions feet. Women's heads with wings support desk top. Front panel consisting of central drawer divided from side panels by symetrically placed C-scrolls decorated with acanthus leaves.
Details
- Title: Elevation of a Writing Desk
- Creator: Gilles-Marie Oppenord
- Creator Lifespan: 1672/1742
- Date Created: 1675–1700
- Physical Dimensions: w361 x h236 cm
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
- Medium: Red chalk on cream laid paper, lined
- Signed: Signed in pen and black ink, lower left: G O [paraph of Gilles-Marie Oppenord
- Markings: Stamp in brown, lower right corner: Lugt suppl. 645b; stamp in brown, lower left verso: Lugt suppl. 457e; stamped on paper affixed to lower right verso: 71 after which is inscribed in pen and black ink: AOWatermark: Heawood #710,714.715, or 716
- Exhibitions: New York City, Park Avenue Armory- Winter Antiques Show: Salute to Cooper-Hewitt Museum (January 21-January 30, 1972), no. 33
- Dimensions: 23.6 x 36.1 cm (9 5/16 x 14 3/16 in. )
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