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Adrian Alan
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A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Rosewood Bonheur de Jour With Porcelain Plaques
( France
c. 1870
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Dimensions
89.00cm wide
132.00cm high
57.00cm deep
(35.04 inches wide 51.97 inches high 22.44 inches deep)
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Description / Expertise
A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Rosewood Bonheur de Jour With Porcelain Plaques In the manner of Mathieu Carlin. This fine rosewood bonheur de jour has a shaped brocatelle marble top above an upper section containing three cupboards. The centre cupboard door is embellished with an elaborate gilt bronze plaque of classical maidens, while the flanking doors are inset with fine porcelain plaques in blue celeste depicting ribbon tied floral baskets. The cupboards opening to reveal a fitted interior.
The lower section has a frieze drawer with finely cast scrolling acanthus flanking a shaped foliate porcelain plaque which opens by a push button to reveal a tooled writing surface, the sides are similarly embellished and the whole is supported on four square section tapering legs with gilt bronze sabots.
Martin Carlin was born in Germany in 1730 and emigrated to Paris to become an ébéniste. He was already active as an ébéniste by 1759, at which time he married Marie-Catherine Oeben, sister of the successful ébéniste Jean-Francois Oeben, for whom he probably worked until the latters death in 1763. Carlin died in 1785.
Carlin sold his works exclusively to middlemen such as the marchands-merciers Simon-Philippe Poirier and Dominique Daguerre. He was particularly known for his furniture decorated with Sèvres porcelain plaques, and in the early 1780's with Japenese lacquer panels. His first recorded piece of porcelain mounted furniture dates to 1763, a bonheur-du-jour now in the Bowes Museum, Co. Durham. He worked from designs provided by Dominique Daguerre, for the foremost collectors of the day, including the French Crown. Carlin shifted his emphasis after 1778 to producing sumptuous furniture decorated with Japanese lacquer, for the Merchands.
His furniture was purchased by, among others, Mesdames, the aunts of Louisa XVI, Mme du Barry, the Duchesse de Mazarin, the Duchesse de Bourbon, the Queen of Naples and the Duchesse de Saxe-Teschen.
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