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- Commode
Paris, circa 1740
By Bernard II van Risenburgh
Oak set with panels of red Chinese lacquer
and painted with vernis Martin; gilt-bronze
mounts; breche d'Alep top
Stamped B. V.R.B, once and J ME twice on
top of carcass.
Height: 2 ft. 9 in. (83.8 cm); Width:
3 ft. 9 in. (114.3 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 95 /s in.
(54.9 cm)
Accession number 72 .DA.46
PROVENANCE
Private collection, Paris (sold, Palais Galliera,
Paris, March 2,1972, lot 109); purchased at
that sale by J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Daniel Alcouffe, "La commode du Cabinet
de retraite de Marie Leczinska ä Fontaine-
bleau entre au Louvre," La Revue du Louvre
4 (1988), pp. 281-284, illus. p. 282; Kjellberg,
Dictionnaire, p. 139; Daniel Alcouffe, "Ber
nard Van Risen Burgh: Commode," Louvre:
Nouvelles acquisitions du département des
objets dart ip8$-ip8p (Paris, 1990), p. 144.- Commode
Paris, circa 1745-1749
Attributed to Jean-Pierre Latz
Oak veneered with bois satiné; gilt-bronze
mounts; fleur de pecher marble top
Stamped RESTAURE par P. SPOHN on top
of carcass and one mount stamped with the
crowned Cfor 1745-1749.
Height: 2 ft. 10Κ in. (87.7 cm); Width:
4 ft. n^5 /8 in. (151.5 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 25 /s in.
(65 cm)
Accession number 83 .DA.356
PROVENANCE
Sir Anthony de Rothschild, England; Hon.
Mrs. Eliot Yorke (née Annie de Rothschild,
daughter of Sir Anthony de Rothschild),
England, by descent (sold, Christie's, Lon
don, May 5,1927, lot 138, for 980 guineas
to S. Founés); Mme Duselschon, Chateau
de Coudira, Prégny, Switzerland; Mme
Rouviére, Lausanne, Switzerland; [Maurice
Segoura, Paris, 1983].BIBLIOGRAPHY
Wilson, "Acquisitions 1983," pp. 196-199,
illus.; Accquisitions/1983," GettyMusJ 12
(1984), no. 9, p. 264, illus.; Handbook 1986,
p. 159, illus.; Pradére, Les Ebénistes, fig. 136,
p. 160; Handbook 1991, p. 177, illus.26 FRENCH COMMODES