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Lot Essay
This pair of secrétaires are copied from the celebrated model made by Jean-Franois Dubut in Paris around 1760 and formerly in the Hillingdon Collection.
Several other copies, almost identical to these, may be found in collections such as three in the Jones Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, two of them branded EHB, the mark of Edward Holmes Baldock (d. 1845), listed in Hanway Street from 1808. He may have acquired some of his furniture from Paris through the dealer George Gunn. There is a pair of the same model in the Frick Collection in New York, possibly made by Paul Sormani; and another in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, supplied by Monbro Fils Ainé in 1856.
Other versions of this model were produced by firms such as Lexcellent, Dasson or Durand.
Several other copies, almost identical to these, may be found in collections such as three in the Jones Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, two of them branded EHB, the mark of Edward Holmes Baldock (d. 1845), listed in Hanway Street from 1808. He may have acquired some of his furniture from Paris through the dealer George Gunn. There is a pair of the same model in the Frick Collection in New York, possibly made by Paul Sormani; and another in the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, supplied by Monbro Fils Ainé in 1856.
Other versions of this model were produced by firms such as Lexcellent, Dasson or Durand.