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    "core": {
        "objectID": 58458,
        "objectNumber": "71.195",
        "primaryTitle": "Writing Table",
        "objectName": "writing table",
        "dated": "ca. between 1780 and 1785",
        "classification": "Furniture",
        "department": "European Sculpture and Dec Arts",
        "medium": "carcase of oak and fir with tulipwood, holly and amaranth with gilt-bronze mounts and stamped leather",
        "dimensions": "Overall: 29 3/4 × 64 × 32 1/4 inches (75.6 × 162.6 × 81.9 cm)"
    },
    "provenance": {
        "creditLine": "Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband ",
        "provenance": "Stieglitz Museum (St. Petersburg);\r\n(Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA);\r\n1932-1971, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA);\r\n1971-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)",
        "signed": "",
        "inscribed": "",
        "markings": "Stamp, under the right side rail: J. H. Riesener\r\nStamp, under the right kneehole rail: 10488 [the 4 inverted; with the same number painted in white under the central front rail]\r\nMarks, on paper label, affixed to the bottom of the right drawer, in ink:  29622 [Duveen Bros. inventory number]\r\nmarks, on a Duveen label:  An old French writing table of the period of Louis XVI (1774-1789) by J. H. Riesener, French Ebeniste. From the Stieglitz museum at Leningrad. Illustrated in Mobilier Francais en Russie.\r\n20th century French customs labels, affixed to the underside of the carcass at left rear: [two labels]"
    },
    "creators": [
        {
            "displayName": "Jean-Henri Riesener",
            "role": "Artist",
            "nationality": "French",
            "bio": "French, 1734-1806"
        }
    ],
    "rights": [
        {
            "type": "Public Domain",
            "copyright": "",
            "creditLineRepro": "Jean-Henri Riesener, Writing Table, ca. between 1780 and 1785, carcase of oak and fir with tulipwood, holly and amaranth with gilt-bronze mounts and stamped leather. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.195."
        }
    ],
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    "terms": [
        {
            "name": "scrolling foliage",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "writing (processes)",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "gilding",
            "type": "technique"
        },
        {
            "name": "holly",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "oak",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "tulipwood",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "bronze",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "fir",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "leather",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "drawers (furniture components)",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "desk",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "writing table",
            "type": "work type"
        },
        {
            "name": "flowers (motifs)",
            "type": "subject"
        },
        {
            "name": "amaranth",
            "type": "material"
        },
        {
            "name": "France",
            "type": "creation"
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    "source": {
        "museum": "Detroit Institute of Arts",
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    }
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