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

FRENCH SECRETAIRES 43

Quarterly 18, no. 2 (Summer 1955), p. 126,

illus. p. 134; Charles Packer, Paris Furniture

by the Master Ebénistes (Newport, Mon-

mouthshire, 1956), fig. 209; F. J. B. Watsoñ,

Louis XVI Furniture (London, 1963), no. 86,

illus.; Jean Meuvret and Claude Frégnac,

Les Ebénistes du XVIIIe Steele frangais (Paris,

1963), p. 286, illus. (erroneously described as

being in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,

New York); Verlet et al., Chefs d'oeuvre,

p. 129, illus.; Getty, Collecting, pp. 158-159,

illus.; Kjellberg, Dictionnaire, p. 872;

Sassoon, Vincennes and Sevres Porcehin,

no. 40, pp. 193-196, illus. pp. 194-197.

52 Secretaire
(?) Paris, circa 1780
Oak veneered with satinwood, fruitwoods,
tulipwood, and ebony; incised with mastics
The back of the secretaire bears six wax seals
with the date 1830 and the word CHARTE;
the back is inscribed with the number ιοόργ.
Height: 4 ft. 11% in. (152 cm); Width:
3 ft. x 4 in. (92.2 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 9% in.
(55.6 cm)
Accession number 85.DA. 147
PROVENANCE
Unknown collection, Paris, circa 1830;
private collection, Belgium (sold, Galerie
Moderne, Brussels, March 15, 1976, lot
1305); [La Cour de Varenne, Paris, late
1970S-1982]; [Dalva Brothers, Inc., New
York, 1982].

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Jean Bedel, Les Antiquités et la brocante

(Paris, 1981), illus. on the front and back

covers; "Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJ 14

(1986), no. 210, p. 250, illus.; Pierre Ramond,

Marquetry (Newtown, Connecticut, 1989),

p. 85, illus.

53. Secretaire
    Paris, circa 1785
    Attributed to Jean-Henri Riesener
    Oak veneered with panels of black Japanese
    lacquer and ebony; interior fittings of
    mahogany; gilt-bronze mounts; black
    marble top

53

Two paper labels inked Hamilton Pahce

on the back.

Height: 5 ft. 1 in. (155 cm); Width:

3 ft. 8% in. (112.5 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 6%. in.

(47 cm)

Accession number 71. DA. 104

PROVENANCE

George Watson Taylor, Erlestoke Mansion,

Devizes, Wiltshire (sold, Erlestoke Man­

sion, July 9 et seq., 1832, lot 26); Alexander

Archibald Douglas, the 10th Duke of

Hamilton and 7th Duke of Brandon,

Hamilton Palace, Lanarkshire, Scotland;

listed in the Duke's Dressing Room in an

inventory of 1835-1840; William, 12th Duke