Cabinetwork · 04-03
Mechanical table
1778
- Medium
- Oak veneered with marquetry, gilt-bronze mounts
- Date
- 1778
- Dimensions
- 78.7 × 113 × 69.2 cm
- Catalogue
- 04-03
- Credit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rogers Fund, 1933
The top slides and the reading stand rises on a rack worked from below, so the mechanism is joinery rather than clockwork. Riesener delivered a run of these; the marquetry differs piece to piece, the movement does not.
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