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

Adam Weisweiler

Date

ca. 1787

Type

Desk

Medium

Oak veneered with burl thuya, amaranth, mahogany, satinwood, holly, and ebonized holly; painted metal; one soft-paste porcelain plaque; fifteen jasper medallions; gilt-bronze mounts; marble; leather (not original)

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

58.75.57

Credit

Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958