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Lot Essay
Jean-Pierre Dusautoy, received maître in 1779.
This table à écrire was almost executed by Jean-Pierre Dusautoy of the rue de Charonne. Inspired by the oeuvre of his contemporary, Roger Vandercruse, dit Lacroix, Dusautoy is recorded as having worked for the tapissier Bonnemain, as well as for the marchand-ébéniste Nicolas Lannuier. He seems to have specialised in the production of small tables ambulantes, including that owned by Marie-Antoinette at the Prison du Temple (sold in Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, 15 April 1989, lot 155 FF 480,000); another in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; another in the Wrightsman Collection is discussed by F.J.B.Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, vol I, Fribourg, 1966, no.138, pp 276-277; and another is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p.292.
This table à écrire was almost executed by Jean-Pierre Dusautoy of the rue de Charonne. Inspired by the oeuvre of his contemporary, Roger Vandercruse, dit Lacroix, Dusautoy is recorded as having worked for the tapissier Bonnemain, as well as for the marchand-ébéniste Nicolas Lannuier. He seems to have specialised in the production of small tables ambulantes, including that owned by Marie-Antoinette at the Prison du Temple (sold in Paris, Ader Picard Tajan, 15 April 1989, lot 155 FF 480,000); another in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; another in the Wrightsman Collection is discussed by F.J.B.Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, vol I, Fribourg, 1966, no.138, pp 276-277; and another is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p.292.