Portable desk
date: label: Date
content: 1840s
notes: label: Description
content: Stand (a), the top inlaid with mother-of-pearl and black checkboard, decorated with gold 'S' curve supports with stretcher on bases with wheels, inlaid with mother-of-pearl and decorated with gold.
label: Description
content: Portable writing desk (b), with mother-of-pearl inlay, decorated with gold and painted with spray of flowers, the slant top opening to reveal a writing surface covered in embossed dark blue velvet, supported by 2 pull-outs with ivory handles. The top back, hinged, opening to pen tray, pigeon holes, etc. Back of top decorated with gold and painted with pink rose and other flowers.
place: label: made in
content: Possibly Birmingham, England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Rogers Denckla
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1975-48-1-a/c
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Portable desk
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Papier-mâché, mother-of-pearl, wood
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a): 13 x 47 x 36 cm (5 1/8 x 18 1/2 x 14 3/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (b): 72.5 x 49.1 x 38.4 cm (28 9/16 x 19 5/16 x 15 1/8 in.)