About the Artwork
Worktable
c. 1780
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Russian
Russian
Carcase of oak, fir and poplar, marquetry and lacquered bronze mounts.
26 1/8 x 15 x 9 1/4 in. (66.4 x 38.1 x 23.5 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.207
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Nailed to the underside of the carcass is an oval brass plaque engraved with the Rose Terrace inv. no.: 139
Provenance
Maison Dreifuss (dealer), Paris
acquired in 1932 through L. Alavoine (agent), New York, by Anna Thomson Dodge, Grosse Pointe, MI
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Berlin, Lepke's, sale cat., June 4-5, 1929, lot 177
Winokur, Ronald L., "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection," Bulletin of the DIA, vol. 50, no. 3, 1971, pp. 43-51
Jackson-Stops, Gervase, and William Rieder, "French Furniture", in Robin Fedden, ed., TREASURES OF THE NATIONAL TRUST, London 1976, chap. 6, pp. 97, 125, fig. 87
Chenevière, Antoine, RUSSIAN FURNITURE: THE GOLDEN AGE 1780-1840, New York, 1988, pp. 33-35, fig. 18, 39, fig. 22
Phomin, J. B., THE ART OF MARQUETRY IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY RUSSIA, Moscow 1989, pp. 80-87, 91, 94, 177, figs. 100-104
Dell, T. et al, THE DODGE COLLECTION OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH AND ENGLISH ART AT THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, New York & Detroit, 1996, no. 10,
pp. 62-63, color repr. p. 63 (entry by T. Dell)
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Russian, Worktable, c. 1780, Carcase of oak, fir and poplar, marquetry and lacquered bronze mounts.. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.207.
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