A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID GREEN-STAINED HORN COFFER-ON-STAND

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID GREEN-STAINED HORN COFFER-ON-STAND

POSSIBLY GERMAN, CIRCA 1740

The rectangular coffer with hinged lid enclosing a velvet-lined interior, inlaid on the top with a monogram CTJ on a stained red ground, on short cabriole legs, the stand similarly inlaid, the interior originally fitted with a tray and the right hand side formerly with a drawer covered by a hinged flap now fixed, the underside of stand with Royal Academy exhibition label, the underside of coffer with old paper label printed with a garter inscribed 'Virtute Non Verbis', centered by a centaur over the name 'Shelburne', with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

30 in. (76.5 cm.) high, 23 1/4 in. (59 cm.) wide, 16 1/4 in. (41.5 cm.) deep, overall





Provenance

Acquired by Margaret, Baroness Keith and Nairne (1788-1867) and her husband Auguste-Charles-Joseph, comte de Flahaut de la Billarderie (1785-1867); the collection concentrated at Meikleour, Perthshire, at the end of the 19th century.

Thence by descent to their eldest daughter Emily Jane Mercer Elphinstone de Flahaut (1819-1895) who married the 4th Marquess of Lansdowne (d. 1866) in 1843.

Thence by descent until sold from the Meikleour Estate Trust; Christie's, London, 11 June 1992, lot 21.

‌Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy of Arts, France in the Eighteenth Century, 1968, no. 854 (illustrated in the catalogue).



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