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Lot Essay
The Inventory taken following the death of Jean-François Oeben in 1763 records:
'13 idem, une table de toilette à coeur, à trois pieds avec son abattant pans glacé, placqué de bois de rose, sur ce dernier de coquille il y a un panneau de fleurs nuancées de 17 pouces de large sur 18 pouces de long, sans bronzes prisée 72 liv.
14, idem, une table pareille à celle cy dessus, garnie de ses chutes et pieds de bronze non doré, prisée 100 livres.'
These two tables, unfinished at Oeben's death, allow us to precisely date the production of this model. Several ébénistes including Landrin, Dubois, Macret, Peridiez and Simon Oeben also made tables of this model.
The table, of altar-tripod form with psyche-butterfly drawers, is flowered and fan-shaped in the India (Chinese) manner popularised by the Parisian marchands-merciers. A related table, probably intended for Tsarskoye Selo's Chinese-papered apartments, is illustrated V. Lemus, Pushkin Palaces and Parks,Leningrad,1984 (fig.70), whilst a furthe example attributed to Jean-François Oeben was sold from the Lagerfeld Collection, Christie's Monaco, 28-29 April 2000, lot 29 (FFr.1,907,500).
'13 idem, une table de toilette à coeur, à trois pieds avec son abattant pans glacé, placqué de bois de rose, sur ce dernier de coquille il y a un panneau de fleurs nuancées de 17 pouces de large sur 18 pouces de long, sans bronzes prisée 72 liv.
14, idem, une table pareille à celle cy dessus, garnie de ses chutes et pieds de bronze non doré, prisée 100 livres.'
These two tables, unfinished at Oeben's death, allow us to precisely date the production of this model. Several ébénistes including Landrin, Dubois, Macret, Peridiez and Simon Oeben also made tables of this model.
The table, of altar-tripod form with psyche-butterfly drawers, is flowered and fan-shaped in the India (Chinese) manner popularised by the Parisian marchands-merciers. A related table, probably intended for Tsarskoye Selo's Chinese-papered apartments, is illustrated V. Lemus, Pushkin Palaces and Parks,Leningrad,1984 (fig.70), whilst a furthe example attributed to Jean-François Oeben was sold from the Lagerfeld Collection, Christie's Monaco, 28-29 April 2000, lot 29 (FFr.1,907,500).