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Unidentified

Portable Writing Desk

1700

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Unidentified

Portable Writing Desk

1700

Physical Qualities Walnut, secondary woods, copper alloy, iron, bone, gilding , 19 × 31 × 15 in. (48.3 × 78.7 × 38.1 cm.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, Bequest of Frederic W. Cone
Object Number 1950.1985.8
Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Picture Book: 200 Objects in the Baltimore Museum of Art", illus. p.38.

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Unidentified

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