Mechanical Writing Table

ca. 1755

Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix French, 1728-1799

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Fashionable Living, Level 3, South Wing

Mechanical Writing Table: 1 of Collection Gallery

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Title Mechanical Writing Table

Artwork Date ca. 1755

Artist ----------

Life Dates 1728-1799

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Tulipwood, kingwood, holly, sycamore, and amaranth on oak carcass with gilt-bronze mounts

Dimensions Overall: 28 1/2 × 25 3/8 × 18 inches (72.4 × 64.5 × 45.7 cm)

Classification Furniture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.198

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, in ink on the underside of the narrow drawer that opens from the right: January 1846. About four years ago was lost in ye field before the house a silver watch belonginge to Narbrough Hughes D' Aeth [1822-86] of Knowlton Courte Kent, Esq. | W. Spotteswoode Jan 12th 1846 on his twenty first Birthday, on which day there was a great Ball and other festivities given. Given under our hand this 12th day of January A. D. 1846.

Marks Stamp, beneath left side rail: R.V.L.C. [JME guild mark]

Provenance

Mrs. Walter Burns (North Mymms Park, Hatfield, England)

July 8, 1930, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 78

(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

1932, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Sales cat., Christie's. London, July 8, 1930, lot 78.

A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge. Detroit, 1933, not paginated.

A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thompson Dodge, 2 vols. Detroit, 1939, vol. I, not paginated.

Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51.

Dell, T. et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, no. 3, pp. 44-48, (ill.) pp. 46-47.

Secrest, Meryle. Duveen: a life in art. New York, 2004, p. 437.

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Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix, Mechanical Writing Table, ca. 1755, tulipwood, kingwood, holly, sycamore, and amaranth on oak carcass with gilt-bronze mounts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.198.