The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Dressing table

Date:: ca. 1925
Medium:: Bronze, basalt, mirror glass
Dimensions:: H. 55-1/2, L. 31-1/2, D. 15-5/8 inches (141.0 x 80.0 x 39.7 cm.)
Classification:: Furniture
Credit Line:: Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1925
Accession Number:: 25.169

This artwork is not on display

Description

Antiquity provides the inspiration for this dressing table, which borrows its form and decorative motifs from Pompeian models.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: A.A. RATEAU INVR
Exhibition History

A Century of Design, Part I: 1900-1925, MMA, December 14, 1999 - March 26, 2000.

Classic/Fantastic: Selections from the Modern Design Collection, MMA, December 21, 2007 - April 5, 2009.
See also
Who
Armand-Albert Rateau (2)
What
Metal (59,483)

Copper alloy (16,678)

Glass (16,078)

Bronze (11,670)

Furniture (5,724)

Tables (976)

Mirrors (738)

Leather dressing (180)

Basalt (177)

Dressing tables (56)
Where
Europe (150,372)

France (49,614)
When
A.D. 1900-present (80,316)
In the Museum
Modern and Contemporary Art (12,751)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
French Art Deco

France, 1900 A.D.–present
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