Desk
date: label: Date
content: 1850–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Rectangular box with inlaid, rounded brass corner edgings, bandings, and foliate ornaments, lock, and handles at either end, fitted flush: hinged lid into which is fitted accordion folder, cardboard covered with beige and white tea-chest paper, cotton with exotic bird pattern. Interior face of lid covered in bright blue woven-patterned silk with edging and central oval of metallic gold braid. Bottom of box has fitted compartments for writing equipment and hinged fall-front writing surface covered with maroon velvet, edged with ebonized wood.
place: label: made in
content: China
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. Paul G. Darrot
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1969-19-3-a/i
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Desk
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Cedar (?), brass, silk, velvet, printed cotton, block-printed lining paper, glass, metallic gold braid
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 22 x 52 x 31.4 cm (8 11/16 x 20 1/2 x 12 3/8 in.)