FRENCH CABINETS YJ
- Armoire
Paris, circa 1720-
Oak veneered with rosewood and olive;
modern fabric lining
Height: 5 ft. 9% in. (176 cm); Width:
3 ft. 2^3 /8 in. (97.5 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 5% in.
(43.5 cm)
Accession number 84.DA. 8 52
PROVENANCE
Private collection, France; [La Cour de
Varenne, Paris].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Acquisitions/1984," GettyMusJii (1985),
no. 50, pp. 176-177, illus.
- Cartonnier with Bout de Bureau
and Clock
Paris, cartonnier and bout de bureau
circa 1740
Clock, 1746
Cartonnier and bout de bureau by Bernard II
van Risenburgh. Maker of the clock case
unknown. The clock movement by Etienne
II Le Noir. The clock dial enameled by
Jacques Deck
Oak veneered with ebonized wood and
painted with vernis Martin; enameled and
painted metal; glass; gilt-bronze mounts
Cartonnier and bout de bureau stamped
BVRB on the back; cartonnier uso stamped
with the name of E.J. CUVELLIER, who
possibly restored it. Several mounts on
clock case stamped with the crowned Cfor
1745-1749. The clock dial and movement
are signed Etienne LeNoir ¿París. The spring
9
of the striking train is dated IJ46 and the
back of the dial bears the enameled inscrip-
tion ,decU.ij46. Metal plaque on the rear
of cartonnier engraved AngeWs 183$; also a
torn typed label with M....xandrine de.....
Height: 6 ft. 3^5 /s in. (192 cm); Width:
3 ft. 4^9 /i6 in. (103 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 4/8 in.
(41cm)
Accession number 83 .DA.
PROVENANCE
(?) Harriot Mellon Coutts (1777-1837?),
widow of Thomas Coutts and later Duchess
10
of St. Albans; Angela Georgina, Baroness
Burdett-Coutts (1814-1906, stepgrand-
daughter of Harriot, Duchess of St. Albans),
London, probably given to her in 1835 on
her twenty-first birthday; Hon. William
Bartlett Burdett-Coutts MP. (husband
of Angela, Baroness Burdett-Coutts), by
descent, 1906 (sold, Christie's, London,
May 9,1922, lot 144, for 4,200 guineas to
H. J. Simmons); Alexandrine de Roth-
schild, Paris; confiscated after the German
occupation of Paris in 1940; Edmond de
