Details
Carved at the doors, central panel and uprights to the front with Raphaelesque grotesques, candelabra, birds, flowers and fauns, the sides and lower back with linenfold paneling, the reverse numbered '119:17' in red, applied with paper labels inscribed '19 - F' and '348', and a partial paper 'Exposition Rétrospective 1900' label, the side-moldings, undertier and block feet and largely replaced
521⁄2 in. (133.5 cm.) high, 431⁄2 in. (110.5 cm.) wide, 191⁄2 in. (50 cm.) deep
Provenance
Chabrières-Arlès Collection, Paris or Lyon.
With Duveen Brothers, New York, purchased from the above in 1916.
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, purchased from the above in 1917.
Private Collection.
Collection of R.M. Barokh, Connecticut; Freeman's, Philadelphia, 16 October 2018, lot 171.
Literature
Catalogue officiel illustré de l'exposition rétrospective de l'art français des origines à 1800, Paris, 1900, p. 262 (illustrated).
'Recent Acquisitions, Furniture: A Sixteenth-Century French Credence, Bulletin of the Art Museum of St. Louis IV, no. 1, November 1917, pp. 8-9.
Exhibited
Paris, Petit Palais, Exposition Rétrospective de l'art français des origines à 1800, 1900.
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