{
    "core": {
        "objectID": 51438,
        "objectNumber": "71.198",
        "primaryTitle": "Mechanical Writing Table",
        "objectName": "writing table",
        "dated": "ca. 1755",
        "classification": "Furniture",
        "department": "European Sculpture and Dec Arts",
        "medium": "tulipwood, kingwood, holly, sycamore, and amaranth on oak carcass with gilt-bronze mounts",
        "dimensions": "Overall: 28 1/2 × 25 3/8 × 18 inches (72.4 × 64.5 × 45.7 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband ",
        "provenance": "Mrs. Walter Burns (North Mymms Park, Hatfield, England);\r\nJuly 8, 1930, sold by (Christie's, London, England) lot 78;\r\n(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA);\r\n1932, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);\r\n1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "",
        "inscribed": "Inscribed, in ink on the underside of the narrow drawer that opens from the right: January 1846. About four years ago was lost in ye field before the house a silver watch belonginge to Narbrough Hughes D' Aeth [1822-86] of Knowlton Courte Kent, Esq. | W. Spotteswoode Jan 12th 1846 on his twenty first Birthday, on which day there was a great Ball and other festivities given. Given under our hand this 12th day of January A. D. 1846.",
        "markings": "Stamp, beneath left side rail: R.V.L.C. [JME guild mark]"
    },
    "creators": [
        {
            "displayName": "Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "French",
            "bio": "French, 1728-1799"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
            "creditLineRepro": "Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix, Mechanical Writing Table, ca. 1755, tulipwood, kingwood, holly, sycamore, and amaranth on oak carcass with gilt-bronze mounts. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.198."
        }
    ],
    "media": {
        "primary": {
            "filename": "71.198-s1.tif",
            "width": 3994,
            "height": 5306,
            "shareURL": "https://dia.widen.net/content/cmnq2mbt52/jpeg/71.198-s1.jpeg?h=2000&keep=c&crop=yes&color=cccccc&quality=80&u=u3bnol",
            "originalURL": "https://dia.widen.net/content/cmnq2mbt52/original/71.198-s1.tif?u=u3bnol&download=true"
        }
    },
    "terms": [
        {
            "name": "foliation (pattern)",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "Louis XV",
            "type": "styles and periods"
        },
        {
            "name": "holly",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "oak",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "tulipwood",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "bronze",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "sycamore",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "drawers (furniture components)",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "writing table",
            "type": "work type"
        },
        {
            "name": "France",
            "type": "creation"
        }
    ],
    "source": {
        "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts",
        "objectURL": "https://dia.org/collection/51438"
    }
}