FRENCH CORNER CUPBOARDS 31
35
- Corner Cupboard
Paris, cupboard: circa 1744-1755; clock: 1744
By Jacques Dubois after a drawing by
Nicolas Pineau; clock movement by Etienne
II Le Noir; enamel dial by Antoine Nicolas
Martiniére
Oak veneered with bois satiné, tulipwood,
rosewood, and kingwood; enameled metal;
gilt-bronze mounts
Back of carcass stamped I. DUBOIS three
times and bears one paper label inscribed
in ink with the Rothschild inventory num
ber AR 653. Painted twice with the same
number AR 653 on the back. Signed Etienne
Le NoirA?aris on dial and movement. Back
of dial signed and dated a. n. martiniére.
1y44.-y.bre.
Height: 9 ft. 6 in. (289.5 cm); Width:
4 ft. 3 in. (129.5 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 4Κ in.
(72 cm)
Accession number 79.DA. 66
PROVENANCE
Ordered by General Mokronowski through
the marchand-mercier Lullier of Warsaw
in 1753 for Count Jan Klemens Branicki
(1689-1772), Warsaw, Poland; (?) Christine
Branicka (sister of Count Branicki), by
descent; (?) Marianna Szymanowska (née
Potocka, granddaughter of Christine
Branicka); Baron Nathaniel de Rothschild,
Vienna, before 1896; Baron Alphonse de
Rothschild, in the Régence (or Rote) Salon,
Theresianum Gasse 16-18, Vienna, 1905;
confiscated by the Third Reich in March
1938 and destined for the Hitler Museum
in Linz; restituted to the Baroness Clarice
de Rothschild, Vienna, in 1947 and sent to
New York soon afterward; [Rosenberg and
Stiebel, Inc., New York]; [Wildenstein and
Co., New York, March 16,1950, stock no.
18018]; [Georges Wildenstein, New York];
[Daniel Wildenstein, New York]; Akram
Ojjeh, 1978 (sold, Sotheby's, Monaco,
June 25-26,1979, lot 60).
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