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Writing and Toilet Table (table mécanique)
Jean-François Oebenc. 1750/1755
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Writing and Toilet Table (table mécanique)
- Creator: Attributed to Jean-François Oeben
- Date Created: c. 1750/1755
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 72.6 x 77.7 x 44 cm (28 9/16 x 30 9/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
- Provenance: Count Grammondo, Spain; (Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York); inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania after purchase 15 December 1915 with funds of the estate; gift 1942 to NGA.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: veneered on oak with marquetry of tulipwood, kingwood, sycamore, ebony, boxwood, and other woods, some of them stained green and with traces of other colors; gilded bronze mounts
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