Desk
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: With slant front upper desk portion, with flame-grained matched mahogany veneers below a raised gilt-metal gallery with brass knop finials that elevates on racheted supports; the interior with contrasting maple writing surface and burl veneers and drawer fronts, with ormolu borders and document drawer fronts, the sides of the top with eagle and lyre mounts, resting on a cabinet base with matched flame-grained veneered doors with lyre form mounts at the centers of the front and sunburst on centers of the sides, trophy mounts on upper and acorn mounts on lower corners, the interior with shelves, on square bracket feet below a band of branded leaf-tip decoration.
place: label: made in
content: Austria
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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 Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1931-95-13
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Desk
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Mahogany, burl walnut, burl elm, rosewood veneers, maple, pine, ash, gilt metal
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (with mount): 142.2 x 128.5 x 80 cm (56 in. x 50 9/16 in. x 31 1/2 in.)