Writing Table

Writing Table

• Localisation : The Music Room
• Année de création :Circa 1715
• Artiste :André-Charles Boulle

Description

Oak and walnut. Tortoise shell veneer, ebony, brass. Gilded bronze decoration depicting female figures.

This writing table was ordered around 1715 from André-Charles Boulle by Louis-Henri de Bourbon, Prince of Condé, who installed it in 1720 in his office at the Château de Chantilly. Confiscated in 1793 and transported to Versailles in 1834 for the museum of French History created by Louis-Philippe, the table was loaned by the Château de Versailles in 2012 in exchange for a large writing table of Louis XVI, kept at the time in the Institut de France. This cross-loan enabled two exceptional pieces of furniture to be returned to their original homes.