Writing table

Jean François Oeben, c. 1760

Jean-François Oeben specialised in the making of small, multifunctional pieces of furniture. This table could be used as a reading, writing and dressing table. The top of this mechanical table can slide backwards, revealing a drawer unit with a writing surface.

  • Artwork typefurniture, table
  • Object numberBK-16662
  • Dimensionsheight 73.5 cm, width 64 cm x depth 43.5 cm
  • Physical characteristicseikenhout, gefineerd met rozenhout en andere houtsoorten, monturen van verguld brons

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Writing table

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-16662

  • Description

    Tafel versierd met marqueterie van roze-, palissander, wortelhout en andere houtsoorten en met verguld brons. De overhoeks geplaatste, gestrekt S-vormige poten dragen onder en boven beslag; boven met ramskoppen. De regels en het, door een verguld bronzen band omgeven, blad vertonen binnen gebiesde velden bloementakken in marqueterie; midden op het blad een bloemenmand. De poten zijn van voren in banen belijmd. De voorregel met lichtgebogen middenstuk en gestrekt S-vormige zijstukken is geheel uitschuifbaar.

Creation

  • Creation

    furniture maker (person): Jean François Oeben, Paris

  • Dating

    c. 1760

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Material and technique

  • Physical description

    eikenhout, gefineerd met rozenhout en andere houtsoorten, monturen van verguld brons

  • Dimensions

    • height 73.5 cm
    • width 64 cm x depth 43.5 cm

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  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    …; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 337, no. Mo. 55.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960

  • Remarks

    Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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