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

FRENCH TABLES 57

York, 1920 (sold by his heir John L. Schiff,

Christies, London, June 22,1938, lot 51);

purchased at that sale by J. Paul Getty.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Verlet et al., Chefs d'oeuvre, p. 128, illus.;

Getty, Collecting, p. 158; Dorothée Guillemé-

Brulon, "Un decor pour les meubles,"

LEstampille 165 (January 1984), pp. 18-30,

illus. p. 24; Pradére, Les Ebénistes, no. 69,

p. 359; Kjellberg, Dictionnaire, pp. 158,162;

Sassoon, Vincennes and Sevres Porcelain,

no. 34, pp. 170-172, illus. pp. 171-173.

76 Music Stand
Paris, circa 1770-1775
Attributed to Martin Carlin
Oak veneered with tulipwood and pear-
wood; incised with colored mastics; gilt-
bronze mounts
Stamped JME under oval shelf.
Maximum Height: 4 ft. 10lA in. (148.6 cm);
Minimum Height: 3 ft. 1 in. (94.2 cm);
Width: ι ft. 7^34 in. (50.2 cm); Depth:
ι ft. 2% in. (36.8 cm)
Accession number 55 .DA.4

PROVENANCE

Sir Robert Abdy, Bt., London; Edith and

Sir Alfred Chester Beatty (1875-1968),

London; purchased by J. Paul Getty.

76

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Paul Wescher, "An Inlaid Music Stand by

Martin Carlin and Related Pieces," Bulletin

of the J. Paul Getty Museum oj'Art (1959),

vol. ι, no. 2, pp. 16-32, illus.; Ε J. B.

Watson, Louis XVI Furniture (New York,

i960), no. 125, pp. 130-131, illus.; Verlet

et al., Chefs d'oeuvre, pp. 125-126, illus.;

Getty, Collecting, p. 156, illus.

77

77. Table (bureau pfat)
    Paris, 1777
    By Jean-Henri Riesener
    Oak veneered with satinwood and amaranth;
    modern leather top; gilt-bronze mounts
    Underside of table painted in black with the
    partly obliterated French royal inventory
    mark No. 290$. Stamped under same panel,
    in the form of a circle that is half cut away,
    [GARDE-MEUBJLE DE LA REINE enclos­
    ing the monogram MA. Also painted under­
    neath table is a crown that originally
    appeared over the letters CT, which are
    now cut away.
    Height: 2 ft. 5 V% in. (74.9 cm); Width:
    4 ft. 5V2 in. (135.9 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 3% in.
    (70.8 cm)
    Accession number 71. DA. 102
    PROVENANCE
    Ordered by Marie-Antoinette for the cabinet
    of Louis XVI in the Petit Trianon, Versailles,
    and delivered on August 6,1777 (sold, Ver­
    sailles, August 25,1793 to August 11,1794,
    lot 828, for 600 livres to Dumont); [Frank
    Partridge and Sons, Ltd., London, 1967-
    1971]; purchased by J. Paul Getty.