74- Table
Table: Paris, circa 1770
Porcelain: Sevres manufactory, 1764
Attributed to Martin Carlin
Oak veneered with tulipwood, ebony, and
holly; set with four soft-paste porcelain
plaques; gilt-bronze mounts; white marble
lower shelf
The circular porcelain plaque painted on
the reverse with the blue crossed L s of the
Sevres manufactory enclosing the date letter
L for 1764.
Height: 2 ft. 3% in. (70.5 cm); Diameter:
ι ft. 33 /8 in. (39.1 cm)
Accession number 70 .DA.74
PROVENANCE
Alfred de Rothschild, Halton, Buckingham
shire, after 1884; Almina Wombwell (daugh
ter of Alfred de Rothschild, Countess of
Carnarvon, wife of the 5th Earl, married
1895, died 1969), 1918; [Henry Symons
and Co., London, 1919]; [French and Co.,
New York, 1919]; Mortimer L. Schiff, New
York, 1919 (sold by his heir John L. Schiff,
Christies, London, June 22,1938, lot 52);
purchased at that sale by J. Paul Getty.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Pradére, Les Ebénistes, no. 70, p. 359; Kjell
berg, Dictionnaire, pp. 158,162; Sassoon,
Vincennes and Sevres Porcekin, no. 33,
pp. 166-169, mus- PP- 167-169.- Table
Table: Paris, circa 1773
Porcelain: Sevres manufactory, 1773
Table by Martin Carlin; circular porcelain
plaque attributed to Jacques-Fran9ois
Micaud
Oak veneered with tulipwood, holly, and
ebony; set with four soft-paste porcelain
plaques; gilt-bronze mounts
Table stamped M. CARLIN ana J ME under
neath. Circular plaque painted with the
blue crossed Z's of the Sevres manufactory,
the date 1773, and the painter's mark X.
Height: 2 ft. 5 in. (73.5 cm); Diameter:
ι ft. 3^34 in. (40 cm)
Accession number 70.DA. 75
75PROVENANCE
Alfred de Rothschild, Halton, Buckingham
shire, after 1884; Almina Wombwell (daugh
ter of Alfred de Rothschild; Countess of
Carnarvon, wife of the 5th Earl, married
1895, died 1969), 1918; [Henry Symons
and Co., London, 1920]; [French and Co.,
New York, 1920]; Mortimer L. Schiff, New56 FRENCH TABLES