Writing Table, ca. 1500

  • Italian

Inlaid walnut

  • Overall: 32 3/8 × 53 1/4 × 34 1/4 inches (82.2 × 135.3 × 87 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

39.657

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)

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.]

Italian, Writing Table, ca. 1500, inlaid walnut. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 39.657.