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METPublic domain
Desk (bonheur du jour)
Martin Carlin
- Date
- ca. 1770
- Type
- Desk
- Medium
- Oak, mahogany, tulipwood, sycamore, ebony, box and harewood, gilt-bronze mounts, soft-paste porcelain
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Object number
- 1982.60.55
- Credit
- The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982
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