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Catalog Level: item
Type: rolltop desk
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Classification
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Terms:
decorative arts
furniture
European art
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Titles or Names
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Text: Rolltop Desk
Preference: preferred
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Text: Secrétaire à Cylindre
Preference: alternate
Language:
French
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Creation
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Creator Description: made by David Roentgen
as ébéniste (German, 1743-1807); gilt-bronze
plaque attributed to Pierre Gouthière (French,
born 1732); some mounts by François Rémond
(French, ca. 1747-1812)
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Extent: desk
Identity:
Roentgen, David
Role:
ébéniste
Extent: mounts
Qualifier: attributed
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Identity:
Gouthière, Pierre
Role:
bronze caster
Extent: plaque
Identity:
Rémond, François
Role:
bronze caster
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Creation Date:
ca. 1785
Earliest:
1780 Latest:
1790
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Creation Place/Original Location: Neuwied-am-Rhein
(Germany)
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Style/Period/ Group/Movement
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Indexing Term: Neoclassical
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Measurements
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Dimensions Description: 165.1 x 150.3
x 85.1 cm (65 x 59 1/4 x 33 1/2 inches)
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Value: 165.1 Unit: cm Type:
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Value: 150.3 Unit: cm Type:
width
Value: 85.1 Unit: cm Type:
depth
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Materials and Techniques
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Description: oak, fir, Scotch pine veneered
with mahogany and burr maple; gilt bronze mounts and
steel fittings
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Material Name:
oak
fir
Scotch pine
mahogany
maple
veneer
bronze
gold
steel
Technique Names:
joining
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Physical Description
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Indexing Terms:
drawers
mechanical furniture
pigeonholes
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Subject Matter
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Indexing Terms:
object (utilitarian)
desk
writing
study
sciences
mechanical furniture
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Descriptive Note
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Text: This Neoclassical desk has a writing
surface that can be pulled out, triggering a mechanism
that automatically withdraws the roll top, thereby displaying
drawers and pigeonholes. The images on the plaque refer
to the Sciences.
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Citations: J. Paul Getty Museum online
Page: accessed 10 February 2006
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Current Location
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Repository Name/Geographic Location:
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California, United
States)
Repository Numbers:
72.DA.47
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