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Metadata
Object ID |
00556 |
Object Name |
Desk |
Collection |
Wilderstein |
Date |
1850-1860 |
Description |
An Early Victorian Ebonized Walnut, Tortoise Shell and Boullework Lady's Desk, Attributed to Ringuet LePrince or Leon Marcotte, Paris or New York, Circa 1850-60. With a molded oblong top outlined with brass stringing above a slant lid inset with elaborate pierced brass and tortoise shell in an oblong panel and opening to an interior fitted with pigeonholes and small drawers; the whole above a deeply serpentined valanced drawer similarly inlaid with boulle work and continuing to brass inlaid angular cabriole legs with gilt brass chutes chased with rococo and tattered scrolls. |
Material |
Wood, Ebonized Walnut |
Subjects |
Desks Furniture |
Legal Status |
Property of Wilderstein Historic Site. |