- Two Coffers on Stands
Paris, circa 1684-
Attributed to Andre-Charles Boulle
Oak and walnut veneered with plain and
red painted tortoiseshell, blue painted horn,
ebony, amaranth, pewter, and brass; set with
mirror glass; gilt-bronze mounts
One stand stamped HY. RASKIN at top of
back for Henry Raskin, an early twentieth-
century French restorer. Some mounts on
each coffer and stand are stamped with
the crowned Cfor 1745-1749.
82 .DA.109.1: Overall Height: 5 ft. \ V% in.
(156.6 cm); Coffer (premiere-partie):
Height: 2 ft. 2^3 /s in. (67 cm); Width:
2 ft. n^3 /8 in. (89.9 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 10 in.
(55.8 cm); Stand: Height: 2 ft. 11 % in.
(89.6 cm); Width: 2 ft. 7% in. (80.9 cm);
Depth: ι ft. 9 Κ in. (54.7 cm)
82 .DA.109.2: Overall Height: 5 ft. iYz in.
(156.2 cm); Coffer (contre-partie): Height:
2 ft. 2^3 /e in. (67 cm); Width: 2 ft. π % in.
(89.4 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 10 in. (55.8 cm);
Stand: Height: 2 ft. 11 Ys in. (89.2 cm);
Width: 2 ft. 7% in. (79.4 cm); Depth:
ι ft. 8 in. (50.7 cm)
Accession number 82 .DA.io9.i.a-.b and
.2.a-.b
PROVENANCE
82 .DA.109.1: (?) C. F. Julliot (sold, Paris,
November 20,1777, lot 706, to M. de
Luneville for 590 livres).
82 .DA.109.1—.2: Anatole Demidov, Prince of
San Donato (1813-1870), San Donato Palace,
Pratolino (near Florence) (offered for sale
by his nephew Paul Demidoff, Prince of
San Donato [died 1885], San Donato Palace,
March 15, 1880, lots 1421-1422, bought in);
Marquis da Foz, Lisbon; Mortimer L. Schiff,
New York (sold by his heir John L. Schiff,
Christies, London, June 22,1938, lot 68,
to Gaston Bensimon for 1,080 guineas);
Anna Gould (duchesse de Talleyrand),
Palais Rose, Paris; Violette de Talleyrand
(Mme Gaston Palewski), Chateau de
Marais, Seine-et-Oise (offered for sale,
Sotheby's, Monaco, May 26,1980, lot 619,
for 3,800,000 FF, bought in).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alfred de Champeaux, Le Meuble (Paris,
1885), vol. 2, p. 78, illus. p. 65, fig. 12;
A. Genevay, Le Style Louis XIV: Charles Le
Brun, decorateur: Ses oeuvres, son influence,
ses collaborateurs et son temps (Paris, 1886),
p. 241, fig. 31; Henry Havard, Les Boulle
(Paris, 1892), p. 40, illus. pp. 41, 45; Emile
Molinier, Histoire genérale des arts appliques
ä l'industrie, vol. 3, Le Mobilier au XVIIe et
au XVIIIe siede (Paris, 1896-1911), p. 74,
illus.; Gerald Reitlinger, The Economics of
Taste, vol. 2 (London, 1963), p. 415; Pierre
Verlet, "A Propos de Boulle et du Grand
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