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Armorial Travelling Desk

Armorial Travelling Desk (© V&A Picture Library)

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German

V&A (Victoria & Albert Museum)

1683

The desk is made up of a pine carcase and oak drawers, veneered with Indian rosewood, coralwood and ebony, and inlaid in engraved ivory, boar's tusk and bone. It is embellished with the Saxe-Meiningen coat of arms.

  • Medium: rosewood, ebony, fruitwood, boar's tusk, bone
  • Dimensions: 66 x 104 x 84 cm
  • Art Fund Grant: £34247 ( Total: £102,740; Export stopped)
  • ArtFunded in: 2001
  • Vendor: Giles Ellwood

Provenance

Presented to the Duke Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen (1649-1706) as a wedding gift, Elisabethanburg, Meiningen; Guthe Family (from Leipzig) who settled in England, 1875; Giles Ellwood.


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