LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Satine, Amaranth, Sycamore and Marquetry

Measurements:

37.40 in. (95.00 cm.) (height) by 65.75 in. (167.00 cm.) (width) by 25.59 in. (65.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

stamped three times JH RIESENER, and with painted inventory number '2803'

Literature:

J. Charles et al., De Versailles a Paris Le Destin des Collections Royales, Paris, 1989, Exhibition Catalogue, pp. 239-40. P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 696, cat A.

Provenance:

Ordered in 1774 for the bedroom of Madame Randon de Pommery, wife of the Garde-Général of the Garde Meuble de la Couronne, in the Hôtel du Garde Meuble, Place de la Concorde, Paris, and delivered on 16 January 1775. Then by descent to Randon de Pommery’s successor, Alexandre Lemoine de Crécy and recorded in a 1788 inventory. Sold, Paris, 1795, in an auction of the contents of the Hôtel du Garde Meuble, lot 3450. Anonymous Sale; Binoche-Godeau, Paris, 22 December 1987, Lot 49. Acquired from Maurice Segoura, Paris, in 1992.