Title: Drop-front desk (secrétaire à abattant or secrétaire en cabinet)
Object type: Desk
Date: ca. 1787
Artist: Attributed to Adam Weisweiler 
Artist bio: French, 1744–1820
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Maker
Medium: Oak veneered with burl thuya, amaranth, mahogany, satinwood, holly, and ebonized holly; painted metal; one soft-paste porcelain plaque; fifteen jasper medallions; gilt-bronze mounts; marble; leather (not original)
Dimensions: Overall: 51 × 27 × 16 in. (129.5 × 68.6 × 40.6 cm)
Classification: Woodwork-Furniture
Credit line: Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1958
Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY