of a circle of dots; the long plaque in the
frieze bears an unidentified painter's mark in
blue and the date letter Ζ for 1777 with a
paper price label printed with crossed L s
and inked 3a[livres]; the small plaque on
the right bears the date letter Ζ for 1777 and
the marks Xand 10 in gold.
Height: 3 ft. 6% in. (107.9 cm); Width:
3 ft. 4V2 in. (103 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 2 in.
(35.5 cm)
Accession number 8 I.DA.8O
PROVENANCE
(?) Don Francesco de Borja Alvarez de
Toledo, 16th Duke of Medina-Sidonia and
12th Marquess of Villafranca; Don Pedro
de Alcantara Alvarez de Toledo, 17th Duke
of Medina-Sidonia (sold by his heir the
Marquess of Villafranca, Hotel Drouot,
Paris, April 21,1870, lot 23); purchased at
that sale by Richard, 4th Marquess of
Hertford, Paris, through [Nieuwenhuys];
Sir Richard Wallace, Paris, by inheritance,
1870; Lady Wallace, Paris, by inheritance,
1890; Sir John Murray Scott, Paris, by
inheritance, 1897; Victoria, Lady Sackville,
Paris, inherited 1912; [Jacques Seligmann,
Paris]; Baron and Baronne Edouard de
Rothschild, Paris; Baron Guy de Rothschild,
Paris, by descent; Mr. and Mrs. Habib
Sabet, Paris, early 1970s.BIBLIOGRAPHY
F. J. B. Watson, WalUce Colhction Cata-
logues: Furniture (London, 1956), p. 159;
Wilson, "Acquisitions 1981," no. 1, pp.
63-66, illus.; Doro thee Guilleme-Brulon,
"Les Plaques en porcelaine de Sevres dans le
mobilier," ¿'Estampille 163 (November 1983),pp. 42-43, illus.; Wilson, Selections, no. 39,
pp. 78-79; Handbook 1986, p. 175, illus.;
Frederic Edelmann, "Musée Getty, Le Trust
de Γ art," Beaux-arts magazine (September
1987), no. 49, illus. p. 75; Savill, Sevres,
vol. 2, p. 877; n. 45, p. 901; vol. 3, p. 1063;
n. 3, p. 1064; Pradére, Les Ebénistes, no. 28,
p. 356; Kjellberg, Dictionnaire, p. 160;
Sassoon, Vincennes and Sevres PorceUin,
no. 38, pp. 184-186, illus. pp. 184,186;
Handbook 1991, p. 192, illus.- Secretaire
Paris, circa 1780
Attributed to Adam Weisweiler; one of the
Sevres porcelain plaques gilded by Henry-
Francois Vincent lejeune
Oak veneered with amboyna and ebonized
wood; set with five soft-paste porcelain
plaques; gilt-bronze mounts; white
marble top
One of the oval plaques and the two smaller
rectangular plaques are marked in gold on
the reverse with the crossed Z's of the Sevres
manufactory, adjacent to the gilder's mark
2000; the central plaque is inscribed No353.
The central rectangular plaque and one of
the oval plaques have paper Sevres price
labels printed with the crossed Z's; one is
inked 72 [livres].
Height: 4 ft. 1 in. (124.5 cm); Width:
2 ft. $lA in. (81.9 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 2^34 in.
(37.5 cm)
Accession number 70.DA. 83
51PROVENANCE
Jules Lowengard, Paris, before 1908; Baron
Nathaniel de Rothschild, Vienna; Baron
Alphonse de Rothschild, Vienna; confis
cated by the Third Reich in March 1938;
restituted to the Baroness Clarice de
Rothschild, Vienna, in 1947, and sent to
New York soon afterward (sold privately,
1950); [Rosenberg and Stiebel, Inc., New
York]; purchased by J. Paul Getty, 1950.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Seymour de Ricci, Louis XVI Furniture
(London, 1913), p. 127, illus.; Paul Wescher,
"French Furniture of the Eighteenth
Century in the J. Paul Getty Museum," Art42 FRENCH SECRETAIRES