Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)

Martin Carlin

Date

ca. 1773

Type

Desk

Medium

Oak veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, holly, and ebonized holly; ten soft-paste porcelain plaques; gilt-bronze mounts; marble; velvet (not original)

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

58.75.44

Credit

Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958