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Escritorio de taracea
Desk and bookcase
Escritorio de taracea
mid 18th century
Object Place: Puebla, Mexico
Medium/Technique
Inlaid woods and incised and painted bone, maque, gold and polychrome paint, metal hardware
Dimensions
Overall: 221 x 104.1 x 67.3 cm (87 x 41 x 26 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Henry H. and Zoe Oliver Sherman Fund
Accession Number2015.3131
CollectionsAmericas
ClassificationsFurniture – Case furniture and boxes
Provenance18th century, possibly commissioned by Pedro José Ovando de Rivadeneira or a member of the Gaspar Miguel de Rivadeneira Osorio y de Cervantes family, Mexico. By 1955, Wright Saltus Ludington (b. 1900 – d. 1992), Montecito, CA; March 27, 1993, Ludington estate sale, Sotheby's, New York, "French and Continental Furniture, Decorations and Carpets," lot 125, to Carlton Hobbs LLC, New York; 1993, sold by Carlton Hobbs to Gordon and Ann Getty, San Francisco; 2015, sold by Gettys to the MFA. (Accession date: December 17, 2015)