{"id":1630,"date":"2019-01-08T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T15:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/?p=1630"},"modified":"2019-01-02T10:19:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T16:19:56","slug":"a-note-on-my-oeben-table-examinations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/2019\/01\/08\/a-note-on-my-oeben-table-examinations\/","title":{"rendered":"A note on my Oeben table examinations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since before my first encounter with one of the two Oeben mechanical tables at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 2012, I have been fascinated (obsessed some might say!) with this atypical furniture form. To learn more about them and their “works”, I arranged a series of examinations. In 2016, I got up close with the two other tables in North America: one at the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/a>, and the other at the National Gallery of Art<\/a>. In October 2017, I visited three publicly displayed tables in Europe: the Cognacq-Jay Museum (Paris), the Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam), and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London). During these encounters, I made a series of notes which I will share in upcoming posts.<\/p>\n

To this end, I want to reiterate that I am not a conservator, nor have I had any curatorial training. When I examine these pieces, I do it from the perspective of a woodworker trying (as best I can) to put himself in the shoes of the period craftsman. What I present are my interpretations. So, I am happy to discuss alternate viewpoints.<\/p>\n

I’d like to thank the conservators, curators, and administrators who took time to arrange and accompany me on these visits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since before my first encounter with one of the two Oeben mechanical tables at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in 2012, I have been fascinated (obsessed some might say!) with this atypical furniture form. To learn more … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discovery","category-motivation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4m6pM-qi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1630"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1787,"href":"https:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1630\/revisions\/1787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jleko.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}