小椭圆形写字台（一对中的一个） - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	小椭圆形写字台（一对中的一个）
品名（英）	Small oval writing table (one of a pair)
入馆年号	1974年，1974.356.152
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix【1727 至 1799】【法国人】
创作年份	公元 1770 - 公元 1780
创作地区
分类	木工家具（Woodwork-Furniture）
尺寸	整体: 29 × 20 × 14 3/4 英寸 (73.7 × 50.8 × 37.5 厘米)
介绍（中）	这张桌子和这对桌子的制造商罗杰·范德克鲁塞（Roger Vandercruise），法语版的名字叫拉克鲁瓦（Lacroix），在巴黎有着成功的职业生涯，他是杰出工匠网络的一员。他的三个姐姐嫁给了橱柜制造商，其中包括让-弗朗索瓦·奥本的妻子弗朗索瓦斯·玛格丽特，在奥本去世后嫁给了让-亨利·里塞纳范德鲁斯在他的作品上印上了他的首字母：R.V.L.C.尽管他制作了更大的作品，如便桶和秘书，但他的专长之一是生产meubles volants，一种可携带的家具，如用于不同用途的小桌子在18世纪的欧洲，写信是一种非常流行的活动。事实上，英国日记作家Horace Walpole向一位朋友报告说，"这里（巴黎）已知有人每天互相写信四次" 为了适应频繁的笔记和信件交换，创建了各种表格。这张椭圆形的桌子在雕带上有一个抽屉，抽屉上有皮革覆盖的书写表面和用来存放羽毛笔和相关书写用具的隔间这张小桌子的视觉效果依赖于其郁金香木和施加于平面上的bois缎面单板的克制之美，这表明它是在1770年代制作的。同样，精致的镀金青铜造型强调了弱化的cabriole腿部的优雅，该造型从臀部支架向下延伸到每个腿部，最后在脚部的一个底托中。一个精致的镀金青铜画廊突出了顶部和下面架子的弯曲形状，同时防止纸张或物体滑落。
介绍（英）	The maker of this table and its pair, Roger Vandercruse, who was known by the French version of his name as Lacroix, had a successful career in Paris where he was part of a network of outstanding craftsmen. Three of his sisters married cabinetmakers, including Françoise Marguerite who was the wife of Jean François Oeben and after Oeben’s death married Jean Henri Riesener. Vandercruse stamped his work with his initials: R.V.L.C. Although he made larger pieces such as commodes and secretaries, one of his specialties was the production of meubles volants, portable items of furniture such as small tables for different usages. Letter writing was a much-practiced and fashionable activity amongst the literate in eighteenth-century Europe. Indeed, the English diarist Horace Walpole reported to a friend that “there have been known here [in Paris] persons who wrote to one another four times a day”. In order to accommodate the frequent exchange of notes and letters, a variety of tables à ecrire was created. This oval table contains a drawer in the frieze which is fitted with a leather-covered writing surface and compartments for the storage of quills and related writing paraphernalia. This small table relies for its visual effect on the restrained beauty of its tulipwood and bois satiné veneer applied to the flat surfaces, indicating that it was made during the 1770’s. Similarly, the elegance of the attenuated cabriole legs is emphasized by the fine gilt-bronze molding which travels from the hip mount down each leg to end in a sabot at the foot. A delicate gilt-bronze gallery highlights the curving shapes of both the top and the shelf below while at the same time preventing papers or objects from sliding off.