About the Artwork
Writing Desk
between 1690 and 1700
Anton Luchtenstein
active 1690-1716
German
Unknown
Ivory, ebony, silver, mother-of-pearl, and tortoise shell on oak and pine carcass, with brass fittings
Overall: 31 × 38 × 25 1/2 inches (78.7 × 96.5 × 64.8 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund and New Endowment Fund
79.32
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Alexander and Berendt Ltd.)
1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Anton Luchtenstein, Writing Desk, between 1690 and 1700, ivory, ebony, silver, mother-of-pearl, and tortoise shell on oak and pine carcass, with brass fittings. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Henry Ford II Fund and New Endowment Fund, 79.32.
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