Lot 46
46
From the Collection of the late SIR JAMES CAIRD, Bt.
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS CITRONNIER AND PARQUETRY SECRETAIRE in the manner of R.V.L.C, decorated overall with flower-filled lattice-work, the late removable top section with canted rectangular yellow breccia marble top with pierced gallery above a panelled drawer with flower-filled guilloche, above two doors and a drawer with flap enclosing three compartments, one with leather-lined slide, above two doors between canted angles, on angle bracket feet, with printed label inscribed EARL OF ROSEBERY and with label inscribed in ink 549, adapted, probably reveneered and remounted, formerly with coffre fort

Details
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS CITRONNIER AND PARQUETRY SECRETAIRE in the manner of R.V.L.C, decorated overall with flower-filled lattice-work, the late removable top section with canted rectangular yellow breccia marble top with pierced gallery above a panelled drawer with flower-filled guilloche, above two doors and a drawer with flap enclosing three compartments, one with leather-lined slide, above two doors between canted angles, on angle bracket feet, with printed label inscribed EARL OF ROSEBERY and with label inscribed in ink 549, adapted, probably reveneered and remounted, formerly with coffre fort
25½in. (65cm.) wide; 45¼in. (115cm.) high; 11in. (28cm.) deep
Provenance
The Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire
Literature
The Private Collection of Sir James Caird, Bt., privately printed, London, 1955, pp.20-21

Lot Essay

The remarkable collection at Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire was predominantly assembled by Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (d.1874), who, ahead of contemporary taste, together with the 4th Lord Hertford Leopold Double and Robert, Earl of Pembroke, actively collected the finest examples of 18th Century French art in the 1840s and 1850s. Through the marriage of his daughter and heiress Hannah, in 1878, Mentmore passed into the Rosebery family.

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