Writing table (bureau plat)
Bernard II van Risenburgh
ca. 1750 · Satiné wood, purplewood and kingwood, gilt bronze, leather · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Signed by Bernard van Risenburgh, who supplied a larger and more ornate bureau plat for the study of the dauphin at Versailles in 1745. A wood called satiné, producing an effect of watered silk, was used as a ground for the floral marquetry on both tables.
- Artist
- Bernard II van Risenburgh
- Date
- ca. 1750
- Medium
- Satiné wood, purplewood and kingwood, gilt bronze, leather
- Culture
- French, Paris
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973
