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Hidden Doors and Secret Drawers: Furniture by the Roentgens

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Hidden Doors and Secret Drawers: Furniture by the Roentgens

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Wolfram Koeppe, the Marina Kellen French Curator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, discusses the intricate furniture designs created by Abraham and David Roentgen. The father-and-son team created innovative designs that were combined with intriguing mechanical devices to revolutionize traditional French and English furniture types.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens, on view October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013.

The exhibition and catalogue are made possible by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

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Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin 

Factory director:
Wegely period (1751–57)
Modeler:
Ernst Heinrich Reichard (died 1764)
Date:
1751–57
Culture:
German (Berlin)
Medium:
Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions:
H. 6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.)
Classification:
Ceramics
Credit Line:
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
Accession Number:
64.101.295

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