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Jacques Dubois, maître in 1742.
The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.
Of the numerous secrétaires en pente in both lacquer and vernis Martin executed by Jacques Dubois, less than half a dozen display identical bronzes to the flap. An example of these is that now in the Art Institute of Chicago (inv.1973.385), whose bronzes are also stamped with the C couronné poinçon. Identical chutes and encadrements to the flap are also displayed on a second secrétaire sold by Lord Rothschild at Christie's London, 17 April 1975, lot 55 (and subsequently 3 December 1981, lot 81), as well as on a third secrétaire sold anonymously at Christie's London, 26 November 1970, lot 101.
Joseph Huitre appears to have been the artisan used by Dubois in 1764 to supply panels decorated both en laque and en vernis. This important vernisseur worked for the marchands-merciers Simon-Philippe Poirier, Lazare Duvaux, Lebrun and Machart. The latter employed Dubois to deliver lacquer furniture to him, for which Machart had already supplied the panels. This secrétaire en pente was, therefore, almost certainly executed by Dubois and Huitre under the orders of Machart.
The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.
Of the numerous secrétaires en pente in both lacquer and vernis Martin executed by Jacques Dubois, less than half a dozen display identical bronzes to the flap. An example of these is that now in the Art Institute of Chicago (inv.1973.385), whose bronzes are also stamped with the C couronné poinçon. Identical chutes and encadrements to the flap are also displayed on a second secrétaire sold by Lord Rothschild at Christie's London, 17 April 1975, lot 55 (and subsequently 3 December 1981, lot 81), as well as on a third secrétaire sold anonymously at Christie's London, 26 November 1970, lot 101.
Joseph Huitre appears to have been the artisan used by Dubois in 1764 to supply panels decorated both en laque and en vernis. This important vernisseur worked for the marchands-merciers Simon-Philippe Poirier, Lazare Duvaux, Lebrun and Machart. The latter employed Dubois to deliver lacquer furniture to him, for which Machart had already supplied the panels. This secrétaire en pente was, therefore, almost certainly executed by Dubois and Huitre under the orders of Machart.