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Drop-front secretary (secrétaire à abattant)

Creator Name

Adam Weisweiler;
Adam Weisweiler

Cultural Context

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Date

c. 1790 - c. 1795, ca. 1790 - ca. 1795

About the Work

Rijksmuseum Object Description
This secretary –a writing desk with a lockable front panel –is decorated with 17th-century Japanese lacquerwork taken from old chests or cabinets. Parisian dealers in luxury goods, such as Dominique Daguerre, bought the costly lacquerwork and had new pieces of furniture made in which it was incorporated.

Het 17de-eeuws Japans lakwerk maakt deze secretaire, een schrijfmeubel met afsluitbare klep, tot een van de duurste varianten die mogelijk waren. Aangemoedigd door Marie-Antoinette kwam lakwerk in de late 18de eeuw opnieuw in de mode. Het lakwerk was afkomstig van oude kisten of kabinetten en werd in opdracht van handelaren in luxegoederen versneden.

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Title

Drop-front secretary (secrétaire à abattant)

Creator

Adam Weisweiler, furniture maker (person), meubelmaker;
Adam Weisweiler, furniture maker (person), meubelmaker

Worktype

meubilair; furniture; schrijfmeubel; desk; secretaire; secretary

Cultural Context

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Material

boxwood; palmhout; bronze (metal); brons; ebbenhout; ebony (wood); marmer; marble (rock); maple (wood); esdoornhout; verguldsel; gilding (material); hout; wood (plant material); lacquer (coating); lak; purperharthout; purpleheart (wood); eikenhout; oak (wood)

Dimensions

height 131.5 cm x width 87.5 cm x depth 42 cm;
width 81.5 cm x depth 35.5 cm;
grondvlak: breedte 81,5 cm x diepte 35,5 cm;
hoogte 131,5 cm x breedte 87,5 cm x diepte 42 cm

Technique

lacquering; lakken; vergulden; gild

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Date

c. 1790 - c. 1795, ca. 1790 - ca. 1795

Provenance

…; collection Hannah Mathilde Freifrau von Rothschild (1832-1924), Grüneburg, Frankfurt am Main, 1931;{Feulner 1931a, p. 491; Von Falke 1936, p. 342, no. Mo.66.} …; collection Baroness von Schey née von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1883-1925), Frankfurt am Main;{Note RMA; Baarsen 2013, pp. 446-451 , no. 110.}…; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 342, no. Mo.66.} 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

Style Period

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Rights

Public domain

Inscription

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Location

Paris; Parijs

Subjects

ornaments ~ art

Topic

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Adam Weisweiler, Drop-front secretary (secrétaire à abattant), c. 1790 - c. 1795, ca. 1790 - ca. 1795, Rijksmuseum. Public domain.

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