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- Secretaire
Paris, circa 1770-1775
By Philippe-Claude Montigny
Oak and pine veneered with tortoiseshell,
brass, pewter, and ebony bandings; gilt-
bronze mounts
Stamped on the back MONTIGNY JME.
Height: 4 ft. 7% in. (141.5 cm); Width:
2 ft. 9 in. (84.5 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 3% in.
(40.3 cm)
Accession number 85.DA.378
PROVENANCE
Monsieur de Billy, Paris (sold through the
marchand-mercierA.-]. Paillet, Hotel de
Bullion, Paris, November 15-19,1784,
lot 171, for 860 livres to Desmarest); Joseph-
Francois de Paule, marquis de Vaudreuil,
Paris (sold under the direction of Le Brun
in the Grande Salle, rue de Cléry, Paris,
November 26,1787, lot 368, for 1,305 livres
to Lerouge); [Kraemer et Cie, Paris, early
1960s]; Mme Jorge Ortiz-Linares, Paris
(offered for sale, Sotheby's, Monaco,
June 14,1982, lot 423, bought in); [B. Fabre
et Fils, Paris].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gillian Wilson, "A Secretaire by Philippe-
Claude Montigny," GettyMusJ14 (1986),
pp. 121-126, figs, ι, 4, 7; "Acquisitions/1985,"
GettyMusJ 14 (1986), no. 200, p. 246, illus.;
Jean-Dominique Augarde, "1749 Joseph
Baumhauer, ébéniste privilegié du roi,"
LEstampille 204 (June 1987), p. 30; Pradére,
"Boulle, du Louis XIV sous Louis XVI,"
LEstampille-LObjet dart o (June 1987),
pp. 56-67,118, illus.; Pradére, Les Ebénistes,
p. 305, illus. p. 307, fig. 347; Handbook 1991,
p. 190, illus.
- Secretaire
Paris, circa 1775
By Martin Carlin, circular Sevres porcelain
plaque painted by Jean-Jacques Pierre le
jeunc, two of the frieze plaques and two of
the spandrel plaques painted by Claude
Couturier; central frieze plaque gilded by
Etienne-Henri Le Guay.
Oak veneered with kingwood, boxwood,
and ebony, incised with colored mastics;
set with eight soft-paste porcelain plaques;
gilt-bronze mounts; white marble top
Stamped M. CARLIN and JME twice on
lower back. All the plaques except for two
of the spandrels are painted in blue on their
reverses with the crossed Z's of the Sevres
manufactory. On all but the central frieze
plaque the crossed Z's enclose the date letter
Xfor 1775; the circular plaque bears the
painter's mark in blue of P' for Pierre le
jeune, and in black, 216; two spandrel and
the two frieze plaques bear the painter's
mark in blue. The central frieze plaque
bears the gilder's mark LG in gold, partly
rubbed. Rothschild inventory numbers each
chalked twice on back of carcass: KKU 859,
AR 542, Ivll20, and 3.
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