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Writing Table
1740 - 1750
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French
French
Mahogany inlaid with marquetry and fitted with ormolu
Overall: 30 5/8 × 77 3/4 × 39 1/4 inches (77.8 × 197.5 × 99.7 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
48.167
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
Stanislaus Lescinsky (Nancy, France)
(Seligmann-Helft)
Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969]
1948-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Gnau, Joyce Black. "An Eighteenth-Century French Writing Table," Bulletin of the DIA 28 no. 1 (1948): pp. 13-14, p. 13 (ill.).
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French, Writing Table, 1740 - 1750, mahogany inlaid with marquetry and fitted with ormolu. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 48.167.
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