Bernard van Risenburgh II (cabinetmaker) French, active c. 1730 - 1765/1766 Work and Writing Table (table en chiffonnière), c. 1750/1760 veneered partly on oak and partly on pine with tulipwood, purplewood, crosscut kingwood, and casuarina; gilded bronze mounts overall: 66.8 x 42 x 32 cm (26 5/16 x 16 9/16 x 12 5/8 in.) Widener Collection 1942.9.420 Not on View

From the Tour: Rococo Decorative Arts of the Mid-1700s
Object 6 of 7

Inscription

beneath the shelf at the center of the back, stenciled in ink: B.V.R.B.; in red chalk beneath the shelf, perhaps a number from when it was in the Pierpont Morgan collection: PM 96

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