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He almost certainly thought, when he bought it, that it dated from about 1760, but we now know that only the porcelain plaques date from that time.  The rest of the desk is a copy of an earlier model, and was probably made in England only a few years before Jones bought it, although we have no clue to the particular workshop that might have made it. Ironically, when Jones left his collection to the Museum it immediately became so famous that copies of several pieces, including this one, were made, many of them by the French firm of Sormani.  We know of photographs of these copies, which were trustingly made in Paris in imitation of an English copy of an earlier French piece.","physicalDescription":"A small <i>bonheur du jour</i> or writing desk with raised back section, on tall cabriole legs, the desk veneered in sycamore and tulipwood on a carcase of oak, sycamore and poplar, the drawers lined with veneers of purplewood.  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