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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, Copenhagen 

Artist:
Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish, Copenhagen 1770–1844 Copenhagen)
Date:
1885–99
Culture:
Danish (Copenhagen)
Medium:
Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions:
Diam. 5-9/16 in. (14.1 cm.)
Classification:
Ceramics
Credit Line:
Gift of the Heathcote Art Foundation, 1986
Accession Number:
1986.264.12

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