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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Roll-top Desk (Bureau à cylindre)
Jean-Henri Riesener (artist)
French, 1734 - 1806
Roll-top Desk (Bureau à cylindre), c. 1775/1785
veneered on oak principally with tulip-wood and purple-wood, with ebony (or wood stained to resemble ebony) and boxwood for stringing; gilded bronze mounts
Overall: 121.3 x 128.2 x 78.2 cm (47 3/4 x 50 1/2 x 30 13/16 in.) overall (height to table top): 76.2 cm (30 in.) overall (depth of table top): 34.8 cm (13 11/16 in.)
Widener Collection
1942.9.410
From the Tour: Neoclassical Decorative Arts of the Late 1700s
Object 2 of 6
1942Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 18.

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