Architect's Table
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1780–1795
name: label: Maker
content: David Roentgen, German, 1743–1807
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: This mechanical table has a rectangular double-hinged top veneered with flame-grained mahogany. It can also serve as a console. A horizontal molding, on which reading, writing, and drawing materials may be propped, emerges automatically when the top is raised. Below is a long frieze drawer decorated with milleraies banding and moldings and mounted with drapery-swag handles. The interior is fitted with a leather-covered writing slide above a nest of moveable drawers. The square, tapering legs decorated on all sides with millerailles panels have gilt-bronze profiles and moldings and brass block feet. The molding on the tops of the three legs were gilded only on the three visible corners. All four legs are screw-topped to permit easy transport. Latches underneath the tabletop can be turned outward to hold adjustable candlesticks.
place: label: made in
content: Neuwied, Germany
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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 Anonymous Donor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1952-160-1
objectType: label: Type
content: furniture
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: mechanical table
label: Type
content: mechanical table
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: oak, mahogany, walnut, pine, cherry; bronze, brass, iron, steel, gold; leather, gold
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 81 x 83.3 x 69.7 cm (31 7/8 x 32 13/16 x 27 7/16 in.)