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![Rolltop desk ca. 1785-86 David Roentgen David Roentgen’s rolltop desks are perhaps the best-known style icons of his oeuvre. This one is likely the “small Cylinder-top writing desk of yellow wood costing 250 rubles, plus 90 [for transport and packing]” listed in an invoice dated March 23, 1786, and delivered to Empress Catherine II. The desk’s distinctive yellow color comes from the veneers of exotic hardwood, called yellowheart, or pau amarello (Euxylophora paraensis). When splashed with sunlight, the wood glows with an almost mystical radiance. The veneers are complemented by finely chased g Stock Photo](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2HGN79D/rolltop-desk-ca-1785-86-david-roentgen-david-roentgens-rolltop-desks-are-perhaps-the-best-known-style-icons-of-his-oeuvre-this-one-is-likely-the-small-cylinder-top-writing-desk-of-yellow-wood-costing-250-rubles-plus-90-for-transport-and-packing-listed-in-an-invoice-dated-march-23-1786-and-delivered-to-empress-catherine-ii-the-desks-distinctive-yellow-color-comes-from-the-veneers-of-exotic-hardwood-called-yellowheart-or-pau-amarello-euxylophora-paraensis-when-splashed-with-sunlight-the-wood-glows-with-an-almost-mystical-radiance-the-veneers-are-complemented-by-finely-chased-g-2HGN79D.jpg "Rolltop desk ca. 1785-86 David Roentgen David Roentgen’s rolltop desks are perhaps the best-known style icons of his oeuvre. This one is likely the “small Cylinder-top writing desk of yellow wood costing 250 rubles, plus 90 [for transport and packing]” listed in an invoice dated March 23, 1786, and delivered to Empress Catherine II. The desk’s distinctive yellow color comes from the veneers of exotic hardwood, called yellowheart, or pau amarello (Euxylophora paraensis). When splashed with sunlight, the wood glows with an almost mystical radiance. The veneers are complemented by finely chased g Stock Photo"){kind=icon}
RM2HGN79D–Rolltop desk ca. 1785-86 David Roentgen David Roentgen’s rolltop desks are perhaps the best-known style icons of his oeuvre. This one is likely the “small Cylinder-top writing desk of yellow wood costing 250 rubles, plus 90 [for transport and packing]” listed in an invoice dated March 23, 1786, and delivered to Empress Catherine II. The desk’s distinctive yellow color comes from the veneers of exotic hardwood, called yellowheart, or pau amarello (Euxylophora paraensis). When splashed with sunlight, the wood glows with an almost mystical radiance. The veneers are complemented by finely chased g
RM2CE1K78–. The lower Amazon; a narrative of explorations in the little known regions of the state of Pará, on the lower Amazon . ao amarello. {Euxylophora paraensis.) Satinwood. Pao arara. {A spidospermum. ^) Pao mulatto. {Catycophyllum Spruceanum.) A finecabinet timber. Pao roxo. {Peltogyne paraense.) A fine, dense purple-colored wood. Same as pao violeta. Parajuba. {Dialium divaricatum.) Quariiba. {VochysiaGrandis.) Sapucaya. {Lecythis usitata.)Sapupira. {Bowdichia virgilioides.)timber. Species not yet identified. An excellent 46o THE LOWER AMAZON Sucupira. Claimed by some to be the same timber as Sa
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