About the Artwork
Combination Writing, Working, and Dining Table
ca. 1785
Adam Weisweiler
1750-1810
French
Unknown
Mahogany, white marble, and ormolu
Overall (71.172.A): 29 1/2 × 26 1/8 inches (74.9 × 66.4 cm) Overall (71.172.B): 1 1/16 × 5 1/16 × 1/2 inches (2.7 × 12.8 × 1.2 cm) Overall (71.172.C): 1 1/16 × 5 1/16 × 1/4 inches (2.7 × 12.8 × 0.7 cm) Overall (71.172.D): 1 1/16 × 5 1/16 × 7/16 inches (2.7 × 12.8 × 1.1 cm) Overall (71.172.E): 1 1/16 × 5 1/16 × 7/16 inches (2.7 × 12.8 × 1.1 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband
71.172
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Signed, on the underside of the drawer-case near the right leg: A. WEISWEILER. Signed, on underside of each drawer: A+WEISWEILER+/
Inscribed, on a blue-bordered paper label, affixed near the signature, probably dating from the 19th century, in ink: S8 Inscribed, on a small, serrated, rectangular 20th century label, on the bottom of the writing drawer: 33.
Provenance
(Grazia, Paris, France)
1932-1971, acquired through (L. Alavoine, New York, New York, USA) by Anna Thomson Dodge [1866-1970] (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)
1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51.
"La chronique des arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 79 (January 1972): supplement, p. 92, (fig. 319).
Lemmonier, Patricia. Weisweiler. Paris 1983, pp. 92, 96, 186, no. 174.
Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, no. 12, pp. 68-71, (ill.) p. 70.
You, Yao-Fen. “From Novelty to Necessity: The Europeanization of Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You, Mimi Hellman, and Hope Saska. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2016, p. 33; 51 (ill.); 135, cat. 47.
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Adam Weisweiler, Combination Writing, Working, and Dining Table, ca. 1785, mahogany, white marble, and ormolu. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.172.
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