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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED SYCAMORE, AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD AND PARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT

Lot 93
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Lot 93 | A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED SYCAMORE, AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD AND PARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
Estimate value
$ 300 000 – 500 000
A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED SYCAMORE, AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD AND PARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
BY MARTIN CARLIN, CIRCA 1770
The rectangular white marble top with outset corners above a frieze drawer with a flower-filled entrelac mount above a hinged fall front enclosing a fitted interior, two cupboard doors below enclosing a coffre-fort, the angles with Vestal virgin-headed tapering terms, on bracket feet with paterae mounts, veneered overall with stylized flowerhead-filled trellis parquetry, branded EU with a crown, the underside of the marble with ink stencil ‘EU’ beneath a crown and ‘no. 1070’ and inscribed in red chalk ‘Marbre du secrétaire à l'antique de la caisse n°16', ink-stamped twice M. CARLIN JME, the back branded with EU under a closed crown for the Château d'Eu, stenciled in black 1070
52 ½ in. (133.5 cm.) high, 42 ¼ in. (107.5 cm.) wide, 17 in. (43 cm.) deep




Provenance

Supplied to Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre (1725-1793) for the Cabinet Bleu of the hôtel de Toulouse and almost certainly recorded there in 1793.
His daughter, Marie-Adélaïde de Bourbon-Penthièvre, duchesse douairière d'Orléans (1753-1821).
Confiscated from the above during the French Revolution.
Restituted to the duchesse by Louis XVIII, her cousin, by decree issued August 20, 1814, and returned to her possession by 1821, when it is recorded in her bedchamber in the hôtel de Roquelaure.
Recorded in the boudoir of her daughter, Eugène-Adélaïde d'Orléans, known as Madame Adélaïde (1777-1847) at the château d'Eu in 1848.
Thence by descent to Emmanuel d'Orléans, duc de Vendôme (1872-1931), great-grandson of Madame Adélaïde, by whom sold; Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4 December 1931, lot 99.
Acquired from Galerie Segoura, Paris.
Applied technique:Marquetry, Ormolu
Medium:Gold, Wood, Tulipwood
Place of origin:Western Europe, France, Europe
Category:Desks and bureaus
Auction house category:Furniture and Lamps, Cupboards
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