IDENTIFIERS
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id:	77269
accession number:	M.3-1993

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 17 June 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The desk of padouk wood; the stand of softwood with rosewood(?) veneer.  The brass handles are later replacements.  The desk has a fall front with two drawers beneath, inside drawers (one replaced), and slots, with a central compartment pulling out to reveal four secret drawers. It stands on a (possibly later but purpose-built) stand with cabriole legs terminating in square 'paintbrush' feet.  The secret drawers are inscribed in Chinese characters equivalent to 'upper left; lower left; upper right; lower right' but they no longer fit in the correct order.
object type: Fall front writing desk of padouk, on softwood stand veneered with rosewood(?), the two drawers with replacement brass handles
title:	writing desk

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Beazor & Sons, Regent Street, Cambridge, c. 1978, from whom the donor purchased it.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Dr Donald Kellaway.

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77269





CATEGORIES
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category: furniture

DATING
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creation date:	1701 - 1750
creation date earliest:	1701
creation date latest:	1750
culture:	18th Century, first half#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 63.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 99.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 102.5



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