FRENCH GILT BRONZE: FIGURAL BRONZES IO9
181
- Inkstand
Paris, circa 1810
White marble; gilt bronze; velvet
Height: 3% in. (8.9 cm); Width: 1 ft. 6/2 in.
(47 cm); Depth: 9V2 in. (24.1 cm)
Accession number 73.DJ. 67
PROVENANCE
Adolphe Lion, Paris, 1929; Mrs. Benjamin
Stern, New York (sold, American Art
Association, New York, April 4-7,1934,
lot 848); [Frederick Victoria, Inc., New
York]; [Mallett and Son, Ltd., London,
1973]; purchased by J. Paul Getty.
182
- Inkstand
(?) Paris, late nineteenth century
Oak veneered with rosewood; set with hard-
paste porcelain plaques; gilt-bronze mounts
One plaque bears an unidentified mark in
script. Base pasted with paper label printed
Palace ofPavlovsk in Russian, inked with the
inventory number 1004, and overstamped
with a French customs stamp. Another
paper label inked with the Duveen inven
tory number 29652 and another stenciled
with a French customs stamp. Base painted
1044 in white and Uh.6$22 in blue.
Height: 3% in. (9.8 cm); Width: 11% in.
(28.6 cm); Depth: 7% in. (18.4 cm)
Accession number 71 .DH.97
PROVENANCE
Russian Imperial Collections, Palace of
Pavlovsk (near St. Petersburg), until the
early twentieth century; [Duveen Brothers,
New York]; Anna Thomson Dodge, Rose
Terrace, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan
(sold, Christie's, London, June 24,1971, lot
33); purchased at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
EXHIBITIONS
The Detroit Institute of Arts, French Taste
in the Eighteenth Century, April-June 1956,
no. 174, illus. p. 50.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Savill, Sevres, vol. 2, n. 15, p. 860.
L'Etude 183
GILT BRONZE:
FIGURAL BRONZES
- Pair of Figures, L'Etude and
La Philosophie
Paris, circa 1780-1785
Attributed to Pierre-Philippe Thomire after
models by Louis-Simon Boizot
Patinated and gilt bronze
Male Figure: Height: 1 ft. 1 in. (33 cm);
Width: ι ft. 2 in. (35.7 cm); Depth: 4V8 in.
(11.7 cm); Female Figure: Height: 1 ft. 1 in.
(33 cm); Width: 1 ft. i^7 /s in. (35.2 cm);
La Philosophie 183
