A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND CHINESE LACQUER TABLE À ÉCRIRE

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND CHINESE LACQUER TABLE À ÉCRIRE

The rectangular top with outset corners and pierced gallery inset with a panel of Chinese lacquer depicting warriors in a mountainous landscape above a frieze drawer with central plaque of cherubs enclosing a leather-lined slide, on fluted uprights with spiral-twist toupie feet joined by interlaced stretchers, bearing the stamp M CARLIN JME
30in. (76cm.) high, 21½in. (54.5cm.) wide, 15½in. (39cm.) deep

Provenance

Henri Stettiner
P.A.B. Widener
Joseph R. Widener
Joseph Widener Wichfield
Norton Simon, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, 7-8 May 1971, lot 164

Exhibited

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1965-1971

Lot Essay

The form of this lady's writing table, the top inset with a panel of Chinese lacquer on fluted columnar suports, is derived from an example by Martin Carlin, maître in 1766, in the Jones Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum (illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, 1989, p. 159).