Dauphin," NederlandKunsthistorisch]aar
buch 3 (1980), pp. 285-288, illus.; Wilson,
"Acquisitions 1982," no. 1, pp. 13-18, illus.;
Wilson, Selections, no. 6, pp. 12-13, illus.;
Handbook1986, p. 143, illus. (one); Pradére,
Les Ebénistes, p. 68, nos. 131-132, p. 104;
illus. p. 68, fig. 14; Handbook 1991, p. 157,
illus. (one).- Pipe Box
Lorraine, circa 1710-
Bois de Sainte-Lucie (cerasus mahaleb)
Height: 2% in. (6.5 cm); Width:
ι ft. io^5 /8 in. (59.5 cm); Depth: 8*4 in.
(21 cm)
Accession number 88.DA. 61
PROVENANCE
[Didier Aaron, Paris].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1988," GettyMusJvj (1989),
no. 69, p. 141, illus.
CABINETS- Cabinet
Burgundy, circa 1580, with late nineteenth-
century additions
Based on engraved designs by Jacques I
Androuet Du Cerceau (active 1549-1584)
and Jan Vredeman de Vries (1527-1604)
Carved walnut set with painted panels
The number 1580 painted on one panel.
Overall Height: 10 ft. i/s in. (308.3 cm);
Width: 5 ft. 5^3 /s in. (166.2 cm); Depth:
ι ft. 10 Vz in. (57.1 cm)
Accession number 71 .DA.
PROVENANCE
Baron Achille Seilliére, Chateau de Mello,
Oise, France (sold, Galerie Georges Petit,
Paris, May 9,1890, lot 540); Gauthiot
d'Anchier, Governor of Besaron, France;
[Duveen Brothers, New York, 1930s];
Norton Simon Foundation (sold, Parke-
Bernet, New York, May 7,1971, lot 193);
purchased by J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Edmond Bonnaffé, "Le Meuble en France
au XVIe siécle," Gazette des beaux-arts
(1886), pp. 60-63, illus.; Edmond Bonnaffe,
Le Meuble en France auXVIe Steele (Paris,
1887), pp. 84-85,166-167, illus.; Georg
Hirth, Formenschatz (French ed.: L'Art
pratique), Munich, 1891, pi. 7; Alfred de
Champeaux, Le Meuble (Paris, 1906), vol. 1,
pp. 198-199, illus. p. 195. - Cabinet on Stand
Paris, circa 1675-
Attributed to Andre-Charles Boulle. Medals
after Jean Varin
Oak veneered with ebony, tortoiseshell,
pewter, brass, ivory, horn, boxwood,
pear, thuya, stained and natural sycamore,
satinwood, beech, amaranth, cedar,
walnut, mahogany, ash; with drawers
of lignum vitae; painted and gilded wood;
bronze mounts
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