File:Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire) MET DP106952.jpg

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Jean Henri Riesener: Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Jean Henri Riesener  (1734–1806)  wikidata:Q69566
 
Jean Henri Riesener
Alternative names
Jean-Henri Riesener
Description French cabinetmaker, master craftsman and brazier
Royal ébéniste
Date of birth/death 4 July 1734 Edit this at Wikidata 6 January 1806 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Gladbeck (Germany) Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q69566
Title
Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire)
Description
French, Paris; Drop-front secretary; Woodwork-Furniture
Date 1783
date QS:P571,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Oak veneered with ebony and 17th-century Japanese lacquer; interiors veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, holly, and ebonized holly; gilt-bronze mounts; marble top; velvet (not original)
Dimensions

Overall: 57 × 43 × 16 in. (144.8 × 109.2 × 40.6 cm);

Other (length of key): 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q160236
Current location
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Accession number
20.155.11
Credit line Bequest of William K. Vanderbilt, 1920
Source/Photographer

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/194622

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Drop-front secretary (Secrétaire en armoire) by Jean Henri Riesener (MET, 20.155.11)

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