BIBLIOGRAPHY
Geoffrey de Bellaigue, The James A. de
Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor:
Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes (Fribourg,
1974), vol. ι, no. 69; vol. 2, no. 103;
Christian Baulez and Denise Ledoux-Lebard,
77 mobile Francese dal Luigi XVI alTart decó
(Milan, 1981), p. 12, fig. 12; Jacques Charles
et al., De Versailles ä Paris: Le Destín des col
lections royales, (Paris, 1989), illus. p. 191;
Kjellberg, Dictionnaire, p. 712; Pierre Verlet,
Le Mobilier royal frangais, vol. 4, Meubles
de la couronne conserves en Europe et aux
Etats-Unis (Paris, 1990), pp. 80-82, illus.
pp. 11, 81.78 Toilet Table
Paris, circa 1777-1780
Oak and pine veneered with tulipwood and
stained holly; marquetry panels of amaranth,
satinwood, pearwood, tulipwood, apple-
wood, ebony, and other stained fruitwoods;
gilt-bronze mounts
Height: 2 ft. 4/8 in. (71.3 cm); Width:
2 ft. 7^34 in. (80.6 cm); Depth: 2 ft. 8^5 /s in.
(83 cm)
Accession number 72.DA. 67
PROVENANCE
Sir Albert Edward Primrose, 6th Earl of
Rosebery (sold, Christie's, London, Decem
ber 2,1971, lot 112); [French and Co., New
York, 1971]; purchased by J. Paul Getty.78BIBLIOGRAPHY
Geoffrey de Bellaigue, The James A. de
Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor:
Furniture, Clocks and Gilt Bronzes (Fribourg,
1974), vol. 2, pp. 498-499·- Writing Table (bureau pfot)
Table: Paris, circa 1778
Porcelain: Sevres manufactory, circa 1778
The table by Martin Carlin; at least seven
Sevres porcelain plaques gilded by Jean-
Baptiste-Emmanuel Vandé pere
Oak veneered with tulipwood; set with
fourteen soft-paste porcelain plaques; mod
ern leather top; gilt-bronze mounts
Stamped M. CARLIN (partly effaced) and
JME under front-right rail. Printed paper
trade label of Dominique Daguerre under
neath left-rear rail; three Russian inventory
numbers painted on carcass; central drawer
contains a paper label inked with the
twentieth-century Duveen inventory
number 2961$. Porcelain plaques marked
variously (not all are marked) with the
crossed I's of the Sevres manufactory in red,
the date letters A A for 1778, Vandé s mark
VD, and paper labels printed with the
crossed Z's and inked with the prices of 30
and 96 [livres].
Height: 2 ft. 6 lÁ in. (77.5 cm); Width:
4 ft. 3^5 /8 in. (131.2 cm); Depth: 2 ft. Vs in.
(62 cm)
Accession number 83 .DA.385
PROVENANCE
Grand Duchess Maria-Feodorovna of Russia
(later czarina of Paul I), purchased in 1782
from the marchand-mercier Dominique
Daguerre in Paris, installed in her chambre ä
coucher at Pavlovsk (near St. Petersburg),
Russia; Russian Imperial Collections, Palace
of Pavlovsk; [Duveen and Co., New York],
purchased in 1931 from the Soviet govern
ment; Anna Thomson Dodge, Rose Terrace,
Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, 1931 (sold,
Christie's, London, June 24,1971, lot 135);
Habib Sabet, Geneva, 1971 (sold, Christie s,
London, December 1,1983, lot 54).
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Alexandre Benois, Les Tresors d'art en Russie
(St. Petersburg, 1907), vol. 7, p. 186, pl. 20;
Denis Roche, Le Mobilier frangais en Russie
(Paris, 1913), vol. 2, pl. 55; Duveen and Co.,
A Catalogue of Works of Art of the Eighteenth
Century in the Collection of Anna Thomson
Dodge (Detroit, 1933), introduction p. vii58 FRENCH TABLES