About the Artwork
Writing Table
ca. 1500
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Italian
Italian
Inlaid walnut
Overall: 32 3/8 × 53 1/4 × 34 1/4 inches (82.2 × 135.3 × 87 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
City of Detroit Purchase
39.657
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Davanzati Palace (Florence, Italy)
sold by (Carlo M. Girard, New York, New York, USA)
1939-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Rathbone, Perry T. "An Early Italian Writing Table" Bulletin of the DIA 20 (March 1941): no. 6 (ill.).
Giedion, Sigfried. Mechanization Takes Command. Oxford 1948, p. 294 (ill.). [as 2nd quarter of the 16th century.]
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Italian, Writing Table, ca. 1500, inlaid walnut. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 39.657.
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