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Lot Essay
The C couronné poinçoin was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.
Nicolas-Jean Marchand (circa 1697-1757), who received his maîtrise before 1738, was born into a family of bronze casters and it has been suggested that - in contradiction of guild regulations - Marchand oversaw the finishing of the superb foliate and rocaille mounts of his oeuvre. He is known to have worked for Gilles Joubert, fournisseur du Garde-Meuble - and indeed it was through the latter that he supplied a commode to Queen Marie Leczinska at the château de Fontainebleau on 11 September 1755 (sold anonymously in these Rooms, 10 December 2009, lot 770).
A related Régence pattern arc-en-arbalette commode, the mounts also struck with the C couronné poinçoin, is in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, Bowhill, Selkirk, illustrated in Pierre Verlet, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIème Siècle, 1967, pl. 111.
NORTH MYMMS
Having a succession of owners dating back to Sir Ralph Coningsby, Sheriff of Hertfordshire, in 1590, North Mymms was purchased by Mr. Walter Hayes Burns, brother-in-law of J. Pierpont Morgan in 1893. In the 1890s considerable internal modifications and enlargements were carried out by the fashionable London architect Sir Ernest George to accommodate Mr. and Mrs. Burns' growing collection of works of art, furniture and pictures, many of which were gifts from J. Pierpont Morgan's personal collections.
Nicolas-Jean Marchand (circa 1697-1757), who received his maîtrise before 1738, was born into a family of bronze casters and it has been suggested that - in contradiction of guild regulations - Marchand oversaw the finishing of the superb foliate and rocaille mounts of his oeuvre. He is known to have worked for Gilles Joubert, fournisseur du Garde-Meuble - and indeed it was through the latter that he supplied a commode to Queen Marie Leczinska at the château de Fontainebleau on 11 September 1755 (sold anonymously in these Rooms, 10 December 2009, lot 770).
A related Régence pattern arc-en-arbalette commode, the mounts also struck with the C couronné poinçoin, is in the collection of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, Bowhill, Selkirk, illustrated in Pierre Verlet, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIème Siècle, 1967, pl. 111.
NORTH MYMMS
Having a succession of owners dating back to Sir Ralph Coningsby, Sheriff of Hertfordshire, in 1590, North Mymms was purchased by Mr. Walter Hayes Burns, brother-in-law of J. Pierpont Morgan in 1893. In the 1890s considerable internal modifications and enlargements were carried out by the fashionable London architect Sir Ernest George to accommodate Mr. and Mrs. Burns' growing collection of works of art, furniture and pictures, many of which were gifts from J. Pierpont Morgan's personal collections.