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Portable desk

Portable desk

1840

Medium: Papier-mâché, mother-of-pearl, wood
Genre: Furniture
Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Stand (a), the top inlaid with mother-of-pearl and black checkboard, decorated with gold 'S' curve supports with stretcher on bases with wheels, inlaid with mother-of-pearl and decorated with gold.