A LOUIS XV STAINED-BEECHWOOD MARQUISE

MID-18TH CENTURY, STAMPED E DIEUDONNE

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A LOUIS XV STAINED-BEECHWOOD MARQUISE
Mid-18th Century, stamped E DIEUDONNE
The waved rectangular crestrail above a padded back and seat covered in close-nailed cream silk damask over a waved seatrail, on cabriole legs

Provenance

Madame Jacques Balsan (née Consuelo Vanderbilt).
Dalva Brothers, New York.
Mrs. Inga L. de Irigoyen, New York, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 28 October 1960, lot 122 ($575).

Lot Essay

Etienne Dieudonné, maître in 1740.

The daughter of William Kissam Vanderbilt and Alva Smith Belmont, Consuelo Vanderbilt became a celebrated debutante at her parents' Newport residence, Marble House, where in August of 1895 she met Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough. She married the Duke that autumn and returned to England to live at Blenheim Palace. She separated from the 9th Duke in 1905 and was officially divorced in 1920. The following summer she married the French aviator and her close friend, Jacques Balsan.

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