Decorative Arts: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue of the Collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum

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49. Secretaire
    Paris, circa 1776 with early twentieth-
    century stand
    By Claude-Charles Saunier, replaced
    stand by F. Durand fils; two of the Sevres
    porcelain plaques painted by Jean-Baptiste
    Tandart and two by Edmé-Fran$ois
    Bouillat; all four plaques gilded by Fran9ois
    Baudouin pere
    Oak veneered with tulipwood and ama­
    ranth; set with four soft-paste porcelain
    plaques; gilt-bronze mounts; white
    marble top

Stamped C. C.SAUNIER on upper back;

stamped F.DURAND Fils on side rail of the

stand. All of the plaques painted on their

reverses with the blue crossed Z's of the

Sevres manufactory; on the two front

plaques the crossed Z's enclose the date

letter Y for 1776, and below is the painter's

mark of three dots for Tandart; on the two

side plaques the crossed L s are flanked by

the date letter Y for 1776 and the painter's

mark Ffor Bouillat; each plaque bears the

gilder's mark BD in gold. Each plaque bears

a paper price label (only one intact) printed

with crossed Z's and inked 132 [livres].

Inscribed in pencil Saunier le Jeune iyyó

on carcass.

Height: 4 ft. i^7 /s in. (126.8 cm); Width:

2 ft. 4^5 /8 in. (72.8 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 4^5 /s in.

(42.2 cm)

Accession number 67 .DA.7

PROVENANCE

(?) Prince Narishkine, New York; Henry

Walters, New York (sold by his widow,

Parke-Bernet, New York, May 3, 1941,

lot 1399); purchased at that sale by J. Paul

Getty, through [Duveen].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Paul Wescher, "French Furniture of the

Eighteenth Century in the J. Paul Getty

Museum," Art Quarterly 18, no. 2 (Summer

1955), p. 131; Charles Packer, Paris Furniture

by the Master Ebénistes (Newport, Mon­

mouthshire, 1956), fig. 162; Savill, Sevres,

vol. 2, n. 45, p. 613; Sassoon, Vincennes and

Sevres Porcelain, no. 37, pp. 181-182, illus.

pp. 182-183.

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50. Secretaire
    Paris, circa 1777
    By Martin Carlin; the large Sevres plaques
    painted by Edme-Fran9ois Bouillat and the
    two smaller Sevres porcelain plaques in the
    fall front painted by Raux fils amé
    Oak veneered with tulipwood, satinwood,
    amaranth, and ebony; set with five soft-paste
    porcelain plaques; enameled metal; gilt-
    bronze mounts; white marble top
    Stamped M. CARLIN and JME twice under
    the drawer front. All porcelain plaques
    painted on their reverses with the blue
    crossed L s of the Sevres manufactory. On
    the two large plaques the crossed Z's are
    flanked by a Fon each side: one is the date
    letter for 1776, the other is the painter's
    mark; the two small plaques are each
    painted in black with the painter's mark