FRENCH TABLES 45
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- Secretaire
(?) Paris, mid- to late nineteenth century;
circular Sévres porcelain plaque circa 1775
Oak veneered with mahogany, satinwood,
and tulipwood; set with one soft-paste and
seven hard-paste porcelain plaques; gilt-
bronze mounts; white marble top
Stamped LELEU—a forged stamp for Jean-
Fran9ois Leleu—and J ME at the top right
and left corners of the back. Painted with
MA under a crown, a false mark for Marie
Antoinette, on back and bearing under
neath a metal label stamped HAMILTON
PLACE. Circular porcelain plaque painted
on the reverse with the blue crossed Z's of
the Sévres manufactory.
Height: 4 ft. 2% in. (128.8 cm); Width:
2 ft. 10J 4 in. (87 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 2 in.
(35.6 cm)
Accession number 63 .DA.1
PROVENANCE
(?) Baron Lionel de Rothschild (1808-1874),
Gunnersbury or New Court, Middlesex;
Leopold de Rothschild (1845-1917), Hamil
ton Place, London, by 1889; Edmund de
Rothschild (b. 1916), London; Frank Green,
Esq., Ashwick House, Dulverton, Somerset
(sold September 19,1947); [Frank Partridge
and Sons, Ltd., London]; purchased by
J. Paul Getty, October 1950.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Getty, Collecting, p. 154, illus.; Savill,
Sevres, vol. 2, p. 879, n. 49, p. 901; Sassoon,
Vincennes and Sevres Porcelain, no. 36,
pp. 178-180, illus.
TABLES
- Reading and Writing Table
Paris, circa 1670-1675
Walnut and oak veneered with ivory, blue
painted horn, and ebony; gilt-bronze mold
ings; steel; modern silk velvet
Height: 2 ft. 1 in. (63.5 cm); Width:
ι ft. 7/8 in. (48.5 cm); Depth: 1 ft. 2 in.
(35.5 cm)
Accession number 83 .DA.21
PROVENANCE
Made for Louis XIV; (?) Dupille de Saint-
Severin, Paris (sold, Paris, February 21,1785,
lot 323); [Bernard Baruch Steinitz, Paris,
1982].
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Gillian Wilson, "Two Newly Discovered
Pieces of Royal French Furniture,"Antologia
di belli arti27-28 (1985), pp. 61-66, illus.;
"Acquisitions/1983," GettyMusJiz (1984),
p. 261, no. ι, illus.; Handbook 1986, p. 142,
illus.; Jacques Charles et al., De Versailles
ä Paris: Le Destín des collections royales
(Paris, 1989), illus. p. 22, fig. 12; Pradére,
Les Ebénistes, p. 47, illus. p. 46, fig. 2; Hand
book 1991, p. 156, illus.
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