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An identical sécrétaire, save for differing decoration to the lacquer was sold in Avignon, 12 December 1988.
Lacquer-mounted furniture perfectly demonstrates the distinctive relationship between marchand-mercier and ébéniste. Probably owing to the prohibitive cost, ébénistes did not keep Oriental lacquer panels in stock and these were instead provided by the marchands. Interestingly, a closely related cabinet by BVRB, sold from the Alexander Collection, Christie's New York, 30 April 1999, lot 105, retained an ink inscription with the name Poirier on one inside drawer, confirming Simon-Philippe Poirier's direct involvement in commissioning the cabinet from BVRB, providing him in turn with the lacquer panels.
A group of similar examples of this basic model of cabinet dating from the 1760s are known, but these almost all have either plain or marquetry veneer - excepting the Alexander and Avignon examples already cited. Of the veneered group, the majority are stamped by BVRB, but the model was also copied by Joseph Baumhauer, Simon Oeben and even RVLC (sold anonymously at Christie's Monaco, 13 December 1998, lot 320). Cabinets of this form by BVRB with a fall-front of plain veneer or neo-classical vase marquetry include that sold anonymously in these Rooms, 9 May 1985, lot 190; another sold Palais Galliéra, Paris, 2 June 1970, lot 126; another, sold from the Patiño Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 1 November 1986, lot 116 and a final example, formerly in the collection of Peñard y Fernandez, sold Etude Picard Tajan, Monaco, 17 March 1988, lot 89.
A further group of unstamped cabinets, their fall-fronts veneered with bois de bout flowering branches, comprise:- that in the Forsyth Wickes at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (formerly in the collection of the Counts Potocki, Lancut, Poland, no. 62.2504, illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Meubles Français du XVIIIème siècle, Paris, 1982, fig. 151); another sold from the collection of the Marquess of Bath, Longleat, Christie's London, 13 June 2002, lot 366, England; another, sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 22 June 1986, lot 634; and a final one from the Patiño Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 1 November 1986, lot 115.
Lacquer-mounted furniture perfectly demonstrates the distinctive relationship between marchand-mercier and ébéniste. Probably owing to the prohibitive cost, ébénistes did not keep Oriental lacquer panels in stock and these were instead provided by the marchands. Interestingly, a closely related cabinet by BVRB, sold from the Alexander Collection, Christie's New York, 30 April 1999, lot 105, retained an ink inscription with the name Poirier on one inside drawer, confirming Simon-Philippe Poirier's direct involvement in commissioning the cabinet from BVRB, providing him in turn with the lacquer panels.
A group of similar examples of this basic model of cabinet dating from the 1760s are known, but these almost all have either plain or marquetry veneer - excepting the Alexander and Avignon examples already cited. Of the veneered group, the majority are stamped by BVRB, but the model was also copied by Joseph Baumhauer, Simon Oeben and even RVLC (sold anonymously at Christie's Monaco, 13 December 1998, lot 320). Cabinets of this form by BVRB with a fall-front of plain veneer or neo-classical vase marquetry include that sold anonymously in these Rooms, 9 May 1985, lot 190; another sold Palais Galliéra, Paris, 2 June 1970, lot 126; another, sold from the Patiño Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 1 November 1986, lot 116 and a final example, formerly in the collection of Peñard y Fernandez, sold Etude Picard Tajan, Monaco, 17 March 1988, lot 89.
A further group of unstamped cabinets, their fall-fronts veneered with bois de bout flowering branches, comprise:- that in the Forsyth Wickes at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (formerly in the collection of the Counts Potocki, Lancut, Poland, no. 62.2504, illustrated in P. Verlet, Les Meubles Français du XVIIIème siècle, Paris, 1982, fig. 151); another sold from the collection of the Marquess of Bath, Longleat, Christie's London, 13 June 2002, lot 366, England; another, sold anonymously at Sotheby's Monaco, 22 June 1986, lot 634; and a final one from the Patiño Collection, sold Sotheby's New York, 1 November 1986, lot 115.