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Lot Essay
Martin Carlin, maître in 1766.
This model of table, intended for storing sewing and embroidery, was conceived by the marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier around 1770. The prototype, supported upon four cabriole legs such as the one sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 21-22 May 1978, lot 18, subsequently evolved into those with straight fluted legs circa 1775.
This is confirmed by the table stamped by both Carlin and Pafrat in the Jones Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, which is embellished with a Sèvres porcelain plaque dated 1775 (illustrated in O. Brackett, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, part I, London, 1930, no.44, pl.28).
A further table of this latter model from the John L. Severance bequest is conserved in the Cleveland Museum of Fine Art, Ohio.
The inventory drawn up following the death of the ébéniste Martin Carlin in 1785 reveals that, at the time of his death, the vast majority of wood held in stock was mahogany, although only two of the twenty-five pieces of furniture recorded were actually veneered in mahogany.
This model of table, intended for storing sewing and embroidery, was conceived by the marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier around 1770. The prototype, supported upon four cabriole legs such as the one sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 21-22 May 1978, lot 18, subsequently evolved into those with straight fluted legs circa 1775.
This is confirmed by the table stamped by both Carlin and Pafrat in the Jones Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, which is embellished with a Sèvres porcelain plaque dated 1775 (illustrated in O. Brackett, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, part I, London, 1930, no.44, pl.28).
A further table of this latter model from the John L. Severance bequest is conserved in the Cleveland Museum of Fine Art, Ohio.
The inventory drawn up following the death of the ébéniste Martin Carlin in 1785 reveals that, at the time of his death, the vast majority of wood held in stock was mahogany, although only two of the twenty-five pieces of furniture recorded were actually veneered in mahogany.