6o- Table (bureau ρ fat)
Paris, circa 1710-1715
Attributed to Andre-Charles Boulle
Oak veneered with tortoiseshell, ebony, and
brass; gilt-bronze mounts; leather top
Height: 2 ft. 7% in. (80.5 cm); Width:
3 ft. 2^34 in. (98.5 cm); Depth: 6 ft. 4V16 in.
(195.4 cm)
Accession number 85 .DA.23
PROVENANCE
Alexandre de Flahaut, comte de la Billar-
derie, or Charles Claude de Flahaut, comte
d'Angiviller, Paris; by descent to Auguste-
Charles-Joseph (178 5-1870), comte de
Flahaut de la Billarderie, Paris, and French
ambassador to England 1860-1862; by
descent to Emily de Flahaut, Baroness Keith
and Nairne, Paris and London; (?) Lady
Emily Fitzmaurice, London; Α. Ε. H.
Digby, Esq. (sold, Sotheby's, London,
June 22,19 51, lot 70); [Michel Meyer,
Paris, 1985].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
"Le Meuble Boulle," Connaissance des arts 2
(April 1952), p. 20; Stephane Faniel et al.,
Le XVIIIe siecle frangais (Collection Connais
sance des arts, Paris, 1958), p. 60, fig. 6;
"Acquisitions/1985," GettyMusJiA (1986),
no. 193, p. 243, illus.; Pradére, Les Ebénistes,
no. 82, p. 102, illus. p. 78, fig. 27.- Table (bureau pfat)
Paris, circa 1725
Attributed to the workshops of Andre-
Charles Boulle
Oak and pine veneered with satiné rouge
and amaranth; modern leather top; gilt-
bronze mounts
Black and white chalk drawing, possibly for
a corner mount, on an interior panel.
Height: 2 ft. 6Ys in. (76.5 cm); Width:
6 ft. 7^5 /8 in. (202.2 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 11Y 4 in.
(89.5 cm)
Accession number 67.DA. 10
PROVENANCE
Η. H. A. Josse, Paris (sold, Galerie Georges
Petit, Paris, May 29,1894, lot 152); pur
chased at that sale by Edouard Chappey,
Paris (sold privately after 1900); Ernest
Cronier, Paris (sold, Galerie Georges Petit,
Paris, December 4-5, 1905, lot 135, to
[Jacques Seligmann, Paris]); Fran$ois Coty,
Paris (sold, Galerie Jean Charpentier, Paris,
November 30-December 1,1936, lot 84,
to [B. Fab re et Fils, Paris]); confiscated by
the Third Reich, 1940-1945; [Cameron, Lon
don, 1949]; purchased by J. Paul Getty, 1949.
EXHIBITIONS
Paris, "Le Mobilier ä travers les ages aux
grand et Petit Palais," Exposition universelle
de ιροο, no. 2904; Paris, Exposition retro
spective de Van frangais des origines ä 1800,
1900, p. 299, illus. p. 188.
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