Desk

Object/Work🔺

• Catalog Level:🔺 item (value type: controlled list)
• Type:🔺 desk (value type: authority)

Classification🔺

• Terms:🔺
  furniture
  decorative arts
  European Art (value type: controlled list)

Titles or Names🔺

• Text:🔺 Rolltop Desk (value type: free text)
  Preference: preferred (value type: controlled list)
  Type: repository

• Text:🔺 Secrétaire à Cylindre
  Preference: alternate
  Language: French

Creation🔺

• Creator Description:🔺 desk attributed to David Roentgen (German ébéniste, 1743-1807); gilt-bronze plaque attributed to Pierre Gouthière (French bronze caster and gilder, 1732-1813); mounts by François Rémond (French bronze gilder, caster, and chaser, ca. 1747-1812) (value type: free text)

• Extent: desk
  Qualifier: attributed to
  Identity:🔺 Roentgen, David
  Role:🔺 ébéniste (_value type: authority)

• Extent: plaque
  Qualifier: attributed to
  Identity:🔺 Gouthière, Pierre
  Role:🔺 bronze caster

• Extent: mounts
  Identity:🔺 Rémond, François
  Role:🔺 bronze caster

• Creation Date:🔺 1787-1788 (value type: free text)
  Earliest:🔺 1787 Latest:🔺 1788 (value type: controlled format)

• Creation Place/Original Location: Neuwied (Germany) (value type: authority)

Style/Period/Group/Movement

• Indexing Terms: Neoclassical (value type: authority)

Measurements🔺

• Dimensions Description:🔺 168.3 x 155.9 x 89.3 cm (66 1/4 x 61 3/8 x 35 3/16 inches) (value type: free text)

• Value: 168.3 Unit: cm Type: height
  Value: 155.9 Unit: cm Type: width
  Value: 89.3 Unit: cm Type: depth (value type: controlled format and controlled lists)

Materials and Techniques🔺

• Description:🔺 Oak, fir, and scots pine veneered with mahogany and maple burl; gilt-bronze mounts; and steel fittings (value type: free text)

• Material Names:
  oak
  fir
  scots pine
  veneer
  mahogany
  maple burl
  bronze
  gold
  steel (value type: authority)
  Technique Names: joining (value type: authority)

Physical Description

• Indexing Terms:
  drawers
  mechanical furniture
  pigeonholes (value type: authority)

Subject Matter🔺

• Indexing Terms:🔺
  object (utilitarian)
  desk
  writing
  study
  sciences
  mechanical furniture (value type: authority)

Descriptive Note

• Text: This Neoclassical desk has a writing surface that can be pulled out, triggering a mechanism that automatically withdraws the roll top, thereby displaying drawers and pigeonholes. The images on the plaque refer to the Sciences. (value type: free text)

• Citation: J. Paul Getty Museum online (value type: authority)
  Page: accessed 16 July 2024 (value type: free text)

Current Location🔺

• Repository Name/Geographic Location:🔺 Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, California, United States) (value type: authority)
  Repository Numbers:🔺 72.DA.47 (value type: free text)

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Revised 25 July 2024
by Emily Benoff