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A FRENCH ORMOLU AND SEVRES-STYLE PORCELAIN-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND SATINWOOD BONHEUR-DU-JOUR AFTER THE MODEL BY MARTIN CARLIN, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY The superstructure inset with a white marble top within a pierced three-quarter gallery, above three drawers with floral-painted plaques, the quarter-veneered top above a large frieze drawer faced with similarly decorated plaques and fitted with a writing-slide and wells, on cabriole legs each headed by a foliate clasp and terminating in an acanthus-cast paw sabot 35 in. (89 cm.) high; 26 ? in. (68 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep
The pattern for this decorative style of lady's desk, mounted with flowered Sèvres plaques, was made in the mid-1760s by Martin Carlin (ma?tre in 1766) under the direction of the marchand-mercier Simon-Philippe Poirier. Examples stamped by Carlin are preserved in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Huntington and at Waddesdon - around which G. de Bellaigue centres a thorough description of the model in The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor vol. II, London, 1974, pp. 477-483.