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writing table

(table à écrire)

Artist or Maker:
Riesener, Jean-Henri (b.1734, d.1806)
Date:
1780-1785
Place of Production:
France, Paris
Medium:
oak carcass veneered with purpleheart; with marquetry of satinee, satinwood, boxwood, ebony, sycamore and other woods and gilt-bronze mounts
Type of Object:
writing tables
Accession number:
2546

Physical description

Dimensions (mm):
733 x 590 x 419
Marks:
J.H.RIESENER
Maker's mark
beneath left hand rail

M A crowned and encircled with: GARDE MEUBLE DE LA REINE
Owner's mark
on underside of shelf
Inscriptions:
Duke Hamilton
Inscription
on label on underside of bottom panel
Labels:
Tower Drawing Room Left of Fireplace
Label
in ink

ON LOAN FROM / 18
Label
on underside of bottom panel

History

Provenance:
Made for Queen Marie Antoinette of France (b.1755, d.1793); acquired for the collection of the Dukes of Hamilton; sold at Christie's London by William Douglas-Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton (b.1845, d.1895) on 17 June 1882; acquired on behalf of Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (b.1839, d.1898) by Samson Wertheimer (d.1892); inherited by Alice de Rothschild (b.1847, d.1922); inherited by James de Rothschild (b.1878, d.1957); bequeathed to Waddesdon, The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust), in 1957.
Exhibition History:
'Special Exhibition of Works of Art of the Mediaeval, Renaissance, and more recent Periods', South Kensington Museum, June 1862, no. 826, loaned by the Duke of Hamilton
Collection:
Waddesdon, The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust)