Lot 48
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY TABLE EN CHIFFONNIERE
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY TABLE EN CHIFFONNIERE
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY TABLE EN CHIFFONNIERE

BY MARTIN CARLIN, CIRCA 1771-1776

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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED SEVRES PORCELAIN KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY TABLE EN CHIFFONNIERE
BY MARTIN CARLIN, CIRCA 1771-1776
The circular top with a pierced gallery, centred by circular medallion with sunflower, the frieze mounted with three Sèvres plaques decorated with floral sprays on a white ground, with a frieze drawer, on hipped cabriole legs joined by a circular galleried undertier, with acanthus-cast sabots, stamped M. CARLIN and JME
27 in. (68.5 cm.) high; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) wide, the top 14 ½ in. (37 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Alix Lacarré (anonymous sale); Sotheby's, Monaco, 14-15 June 1981, lot 122.
Acquired from the above sale by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family.
Literature
P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Francais Du XVIII Siecle: Dictionnaire Des Ebenistes Et Des Menuisiers, Paris, 1989, pp. 158 and 164.
A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers: The Art of the Ebeniste from Louis XIV to the Revolution, London, 1990, p. 359.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Vol. I, New York, 1966, pp. 282-283 and 284.
D. Alcouffe, Furniture Collections in the Louvre, Vol. I, Dijon, 1993, pp. 228-229.

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Descriptif du lot

Martin Carlin (c. 1730-1785), maître in 1766.

For more information on this lot please see the note for the previous lot (47).

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