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Artist: Unknown
Escritorio de Salamanca (writing desk)
late 17th century
Iron-mounted bone, inlaid painted and partly-gilded walnut
63.5 × 105.4 × 40.64 cm (25 × 41 1/2 × 16 in.)
other (lid open): 58.42 × 100.33 × 96.52 cm(23 × 39 1/2 × 38 in.)
other (lid open): 58.42 × 100.33 × 96.52 cm(23 × 39 1/2 × 38 in.)
Enoch Vine Stoddard Collection, Bequest of Enoch Vine Stoddard, B.A. 1905
1957.56.6
Geography:
Made in Spain
Status:
On view
Culture:
Spanish
Period:
17th century
Classification:
Furniture
Provenance:
Collection of Enoch Vine Stoddard (until 1957); Yale University Art Gallery
Bibliography:
Samuel Luterbacher, “An Escritorio from the Spanish Golden Age,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2016): 100, fig. 1–2.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
