- Table
Table: Paris, early twentieth century
Porcelain: Sévres manufactory, 1761
Carcass perhaps by an imitator of Bernard II
van Risenburgh; porcelain top painted by
Charles-Nicolas Dodin after a design by
Francois Boucher
Painted oak; set with a soft-paste porcelain
plaque; gilt-bronze mounts
Stamped B. V.R.B, and J ME underneath
drawer. Underside of the porcelain plaque
painted with the blue crossed Z's of the
Sévres manufactory enclosing the date letter
/for 1761, and with the painters mark k.
Height: 2 ft. 2^3 /s in. (66.9 cm); Width:
ι ft. iVs in. (34.6 cm); Depth: 11 Ys in.
(28.3 cm)
Accession number 70.DA. 85
PROVENANCE
Porcelain Plateau only: (?) Miss H.
Cavendish-Bentinck (offered for sale,
Christie's, London, March 3, 1893, lot 123,
bought in); (?) John Cockshut, Esq.
(sold after his death, Christie's, London,
March 11,1913, lot 92, to Harding).
Table mounted with Plateau: Private
English collection; [Rosenberg and Stiebel,
Inc., New York, 1949]; purchased by J. Paul
Getty, 1949.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Verlet et al., Chefs d'oeuvre, p. 118, illus.;
Getty, Collecting, p. 148, illus.; Hans Huth,
Lacquer of the West: The History ofa Craft
andan Industry, 1550-1950 (Chicago and
London, 1971), p. 93, caption p. 145, fig. 231;
Adrian Sassoon, "New Research on a Table
Top 71Stamped by Bernard van Risenburgh,"
GettyMusJy (1981), pp. 167-174, figs. 1-5,
8-9; Antoinette Fäy-Halle et al., Frangois
Boucher (The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, 1986), no. 97, p. 355; Savill,
Sevres, vol. 2, n. 2f, p. 812; Kjellberg, Die-
tionnaire, p. 139; Sassoon, Vincennes and
Sevres Porcelain, no. 32, pp. 162-165, illus.
pp. 163,165.- Toilet Table
Paris, circa 1760-1765
Attributed to Jean-Fran9ois Leleu
Oak veneered with kingwood, tulipwood,
pear, satinwood, lemon, padouk, amaranth,
sycamore, boxwood, and ebony; gilt-bronze
mounts
The number 499 cast into the reverse of
each mount. Paper label inked B.F.A. C.
1913 Meyer Sassoon Esq. inside drawer.
Paper label printed BURLINGTON FINE
ARTS CLUB EXHIBITION OF THE
FRENCH SCHOOL OF THE XVIIITH
CENT. 1913, and another label inked Mr. A.
Barker presenté parM. Chenue, 24 Rue....
despetits Champs underneath table.
Height: 2 ft. 3V8 in. (70.2 cm); Width:
ι ft. io^3 /8 in. (56.9 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 3% in.
(40.3 cm)
Accession number 72 .DA.49
PROVENANCE
[Alexander Barker, Esq.], probably acquired
in Paris (sold, Christie's, London, June 11,
1874, lot 693); (?) Edmund, ist Lord
Grimsthorpe (1816-1905); Leopold George
Frederick, 5th Viscount Clifden (sold,54 FRENCH TABLES
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