LOT DETAILS
Materials:
Brass, Oak
Measurements:
31.69 in. (80.50 cm.) (height) by 51.77 in. (131.50 cm.) (width) by 27.76 in. (70.50 cm.) (width)
Description:
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Markings:
paper label inscribed 'RD' in red ink
Literature:
P. Kjellberg, 'Meubles de Rangement de Minéralogie', Connaissance des Arts, May 1967, pp. 105-107, one commode illustrated in situ. Jean-Dominique Augarde, 'Nobles Seigneurs and Scientific Instruments in 18th Century France: Louis-Léon Pajot, Comte d'Ons-en-Bray (1678-1754)', delivered at the symposium Origins and Evolution of Collecting Scientific Instruments, Boerhaave Museum, Leyde, 7-9 September 1994. Jean-Dominique Augarde, 'The Scientific Cabinet of Comte d'Ons-en-Bray and a Clock by Domenico Cucci', Cleveland Studies in the History of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2003, Vol. 8, pp. 80-95.
Provenance:
Supplied to Louis-Léon Pajot, second comte d'Ons-en-Bray for his cabinet at the château de Bercy, where recorded in 1754. The Wildenstein Collection, Christie's, London, 14 December 2005, lot 20, where acquired.