l8 FRENCH CABINETS
Rothschild, Paris, 1972; José and Vera
Espirito Santo, Lausanne, Switzerland,
after 1972.BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sassoon, "Acquisitions 1983," no. 6,
pp. 193-197, illus.; "Acquisitions/1983,"
GettyMusJvi (1984), no. 8, pp. 263-264,
illus.; Handbook1986, p. 159, illus. p. 158;
Jean-Dominique Augarde, "1749 Joseph
Baumhauer, ébéniste privilegié du roí,"
L'Estampille 204 (June 1987), p. 25; Pradére,
Les Ebénistes, illus. p. 196, fig. 188; Hand-
book 1991, p. 175, illus. p. 174.- Cabinet
Paris, circa 1745-
Attributed to Bernard II van Risenburgh
Oak veneered with tulipwood, bois satiné,
and cherry; gilt-bronze mounts; breche
d'Alep top
Inscribed DAVAL twice on the back.
Height: 3 ft. 9^5 /s in. (115.8 cm); Width:
15 ft. 4% in. (468.6 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 9% in.
(54.5 cm)
Accession number 77 .DA.
PROVENANCE
Daval {marchand-mercier, died circa 1821),
Paris, before 1822; Henri, comte de Gref-
fulhe, Paris (sold by his widow, Sotheby's,
London, July 23,1937, lot 50, to both
[Arnold Seligmann] and [Trevor and Co.],
for £1,400); [David Drey, London, 1950s];
[Maurice Aveline, Paris, 1950s]; Antenor
Patino, Paris, circa 1957; [Aveline et Cíe,
Paris and Geneva].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Charles Guellette, "Les Cabinets d'amateurs
ä Paris—La Collection de Μ. Henri de
Greffulhe, Part 2: Ameublement," Gazette
des beaux-arts 1$ (1877), p. 466; Gerald
Reitlinger, The Economics of Taste (London,
1963), vol. 2, p. 426; Wilson, "Acquisitions
1977 to mid 1979," no. 3, p. 37, illus.;
Pradére, Les Ebénistes, p. 190, illus. p. 185,
fig. 168.- Pair of Cabinets
Paris, circa 1745-
By Bernard II van Risenburgh
Oak veneered with bois satiné, kingwood,
and cherry; gilt-bronze mounts
Each cabinet is stamped Β V.R. Β. on back.
Height: 4 ft. ιο^5 /δ in. (149 cm); Width:
3 ft. 3^34 in. (101 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 7 in.
(48.3 cm)
Accession number 84. DA. 24.1-. 2
PROVENANCE
(?) Sir John Hobart Caradoc, 2nd Baron
Howden, Grimston Park, Tadcaster, York
shire, circa 1840; (?) Albert Denison, ist
Baron Londesborough, Grimston Park,
1850; (?) William Henry Forester, created
Earl of Londesborough, Grimston Park
(sold with the contents of Grimston Park
in 1872 to John Fielden); Captain John
Fielden (great-nephew of John Fielden)
(sold, Henry Spencer and Sons, at Grimston
Park, Tadcaster, Yorkshire, May 29-31,1962,
lot 372); [Etienne Levy and Rene Weiller,
II