Details
A LOUIS XV FRUITWOOD AND SCARLET AND GILT-JAPANNED TABLE EN CABARET by Jean Hoffenrichler, dit Potarange, mounted with gilt-bronze, the foliate reeded border incorporating a waved rectangular panel of butterflies and flowers on a scarlet ground, the waved apron with moulded border, on foliate-trailed acanthus C-scroll headed cabriole legs and foliate rockwork sabots, stamped J. POTARANGE JME, with printed label to the underside CHENUE EMBALLEUR L'arcade 5 Rue de la Terrasse PARIS, with further labels 2142 HXOO and I2039CS, two legs spliced, the original decoration possibly painted in Europe onto a plain rectangular panel of Chinese lacquer
33in. (84cm.) wide; 28in. (71cm.) high; 19¼in. (49cm.) deep
Provenance
The Larcade Collection, possibly M. Edward Larcade who lent pieces to Three French Reigns
Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., 25 Park Lane, W.1., recorded in the Library in the pre-1927 inventory and in 1939; also depicted in the interior circa 1923 of the Large Drawing Room by E. Shepherd
Literature
G. Worsley, 'Houghton', Country Life, 4 March 1993, p.53, fig. 9 (illustrated in situ in the White Drawing Room)
