Museum Collections

Rectangular wooden writing desk with flat, hinged lid, brass rosette mounts with bail handle, and teardrop-shaped escutcheon, covered with several coats of lacquer and decorated with gold leaf (Chinoiserie style); landscape on water scattered over desk, with houses on stilts over the water, other houses on isolated pieces of land, and boats floating through landscape, with people in boats or looking through windows; desk opens out to reveal slanted writing surface covered in blue felt, leading up to set of three compartments, one large, two small, with central compartment also divided into two by addition of tray.