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Hidden Doors and Secret Drawers: Furniture by the Roentgens

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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Cup (Tasse à chocolat AB)

Sèvres Manufactory (French, 1740–present)

Decorator:: Sophie Debon (active 1816–24)
Artist:: After a painting by Marie-Victoire Jacquetot (1772–1855)
Artist:: After an original by Alexander Roslin (Swedish, Malmö 1718–1793 Paris)
Date:: 1822
Culture:: French (Sèvres)
Medium:: Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions:: Gr. H. 4 13/16 in. (12.2 cm.)
Classification:: Ceramics
Credit Line:: Purchase, Gift in Memory of Frederick P. Victoria, 1993
Accession Number:: 1993.276.1

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 554

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