Date 1839 Medium Ebony, ebony veneer, ebonized maple, oak, maple, rosewood, snakewood, ivory, mother-of-pearl; brass hardware and mounts; lined with silk velvet not original to the piece Terms ebony 300012055 oak 300012264 maple 300012236 rosewood 300012424 snakewood 300179524 ivory 300011857 mother-of-pearl 300011835 lined 300162124 Dimensions Overall (at base): 53 x 32 1/8 x 23 1/8 in. (134.6 x 81.6 x 58.7 cm); Overall (at widest edge of lectern): 53 x 30 11/16 x 21 5/8 in. Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY 2006.518 Classifications read from Wikidata, 2026-08-28
Getty ids beside the museum's words, by exact match, 2026-09-09
Of No subject recorded yet.
Rights Credit Purchase, Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan and Rogers Fund, by exchange, 2006 Licence CC0-1.0 Evidence metmuseum.org collection api v1: isPublicDomain=true on object 232145 (read 2026-08-27) Record https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/232145 Close Bookstand — Charles-Auguste Questel 1839
Within fifty years of 1839 3798 Songs of Experience: The School Boy William Blake[1789] printed ca. 1825 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Found (second plate) William Blake[1789] printed ca. 1825 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost William Blake[1789] printed ca. 1825 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Songs of Experience: The Little Girl Lost (second plate); The Little Girl Found William Blake[1789] printed ca. 1825 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Textile Jean-Baptiste Huet, French, 1745 – 18111789–1791 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Design for a Pavillion Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–18091789 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Design for a Kaffeehaus Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–18091789 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Coat of arms of Cardinal Vincenzo Maria Altieri Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 1746–18091789–1793 Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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Next Made in the nineteenth century, like Bookstand.
