{"id":1396,"date":"2016-07-19T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T15:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2019-02-11T14:39:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:39:19","slug":"similar-tables-by-oeben","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/2016\/07\/19\/similar-tables-by-oeben\/","title":{"rendered":"Similar tables by Oeben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.getty.edu\/iris\/a-look-inside-j-paul-getty-newly-digitized-diaries\/\">J. Paul Getty&#8217;s diaries<\/a>, the are 15 mechanical tables similar to this one in existence. I know of nine. Four in North America:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>there are two at the J. Paul Getty Museum (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/art\/collection\/objects\/5403\/jean-francois-oeben-mechanical-reading-writing-and-toilette-table-french-about-1750\/?dz=#2b245201eebbee3824656e21fb50f3ca5d5d4a1c\">the focus<\/a> of this re-creation effort and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/art\/collection\/objects\/5441\/jean-francois-oeben-writing-and-toilette-table-french-about-1754\/?dz=#74089544b838fe0eee5214ec74de8f340780500c\">this one<\/a>)&nbsp;in Los Angeles,<\/li>\n<li>one at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metmuseum.org\/art\/collection\/search\/206976\">Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a> in New York City, and&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>one at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nga.gov\/content\/ngaweb\/Collection\/art-object-page.1573.html#\">National Gallery of Art<\/a> in Washington, D.C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Europe, I&#8217;ve read about five more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museecognacqjay.paris.fr\/en\/la-collection\/mechanical-table#\">Mus\u00e9e Cognacq-Jay<\/a> in Paris has one,<\/li>\n<li>the one at the <a href=\"http:\/\/cartelen.louvre.fr\/cartelen\/visite?srv=car_not_frame&#038;idNotice=20605&#038;langue=en\">Louvre<\/a>&nbsp;also in Paris,<\/li>\n<li>another in the <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.vam.ac.uk\/item\/O66248\/mechanical-writing-table-oeben-jean-francois\/\">Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a> in London,<\/li>\n<li>one in Portugal at the <a href=\"http:\/\/gulbenkian.pt\/museu\/en\/collection-item\/mechanical-table\/\">Calouste Gulbenkian Museum<\/a>, and&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>the one I learned about most recently at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rijksmuseum.nl\/en\/collection\/BK-16662\">the Rijks Museum<\/a> in The Netherlands.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This leaves six more for me to locate. Please contact me if you know of any others as I would very much like to add them here (not to mention potentially see them for myself)!<\/p>\n<p>What is interesting about these is that they were made in an approximately thirteen year span, from 1750 until Oeben&#8217;s death in 1763. Each slightly different from its sisters. The table that is the focus of this re-creation is, as near as I have seen, the only one with a full-length drawer beneath the moveable portions. Also, from what I can discern from the dates attributed by each museum, it is also one of the earliest made. It appears that the later tables&#8217; mechanisms were integrated into a cartridge rather than having to install individual components: guides, drives, etc. My guess is that as his career progressed and more of these tables were produced, he attempted to increase efficiency during the construction process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to J. 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