Cupboard .2 33CORNER CUPBOARDS- Pair of Corner Cupboards
Paris, circa 1740
By Bernard II van Risenburgh
Oak set with panels of black Japanese
lacquer and painted with vends Martin;
gilt-bronze mounts; sarrancolin marble tops
Each cupboard stamped B. V.R.B. twice on
top of carcass.
Height: 3 ft. 3/8 in. (99.4 cm); Width:
2 ft. 10^34 in. (88.3 cm); Depth: 2 ft. Ys in.
(61.2 cm)
Accession number 72 .DA.44.1-.2
PROVENANCE
[Kraemer et Cie, Paris]; purchased by
J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Kjellberg, Dictionnaire, p. 139.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Marie-Juliette Ballot, Charles Cressent:
Sculpteur, ébéniste, collectionneur, Archives
de Vart frangais: Nouvellepériode 10 (Paris,
1919), pp. 128, 151-152; Jean Meuvret and
Claude Frégnac, Les Ebénistes du XVIIIe
Steele frangais (Paris, 1963), p. 46; Wilson,
"Acquisitions 1977 to mid 1979," no. 15,
p. 52, illus. (one) p. 51; Pradére, Les Ebénistes,
detail illus. on cover.One of a pair 34- Pair of Corner Cabinets
Paris, circa 1745
Attributed to Charles Cressent
Oak veneered with tulipwood, kingwood,
and amaranth; gilt-bronze mounts
Height: 6 ft. 3 Yz in. (191.8 cm); Width:
10 ft. 11 in. (332.7 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 3% in.
(39.4 cm)
Accession number 79 .DA.2.1-.2
PROVENANCE
(?) Baron Mayer Alphonse de Rothschild,
Paris, by 1905; Baron Edouard de Roth
schild, Paris; Baron Guy de Rothschild,
Paris; by descent to Baron David de Roth
schild, Paris.
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