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Cylinder-top Desk
Jean François Leleu, c. 1775 - c. 1785
When the writing slide of this desk is drawn out, the cylinder automatically disappears into the superstructure, revealing the desk’s interior. Leleu was a pupil of the famous Jean-François Oeben who specialized in ingenious mechanical furniture of this kind. The relatively sober decoration of this mahogany piece shows the influence of contemporary English taste at the time.
- Artwork typefurniture, desk, cylinderbureau, bureau table
- Object numberBK-14854
- Dimensionsheight 115 cm x width 117 cm x depth 68 cm x weight 92 kg
- Physical characteristicsoak, mahogany, boxwood and ebony, gilt bronze, Carrara marble