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- Roll-Top desk
- Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806)
- France
- c. 1770
- F102
- Oval Drawing Room
- Bookmarkable URLA slightly simplified version of the roll-top desk made for Louis XV by Jean-François Oeben (1721-1763) and Jean-Henri Riesener and delivered in 1769 (see p.00). It was supplied by Riesener to Pierre-Gaspard-Marie Grimod (1748-1809), comte d’Orsay, a member of a leading family of financiers and tax-farmers, only about a year after the king’s desk was delivered to Louis XV. On each side the marquetry includes the monogram ORS in a medallion. Other elements may also refer to d’Orsay himself. For example, the dove carrying a letter on the roll top may refer to his marriage in 1770 and the military trophies on the sides may refer to his commission as a captain of dragoons.
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- Chest-of-drawers
- Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806)
- France
- 1780
- F247
- Study
- Bookmarkable URLChest-of-drawers of oak, veneered with purpleheart, sycamore, satiné, holly and other woods, mounted with gilt-bronze. This chest-of-drawers is probably the one supplied on 9 December 1780 for Marie-Antoinette’s private study at Versailles. The delicate gilt-bronze flower mounts including the cipher of the Queen greatly appealed to Marie-Antoinette’s taste and Riesener went on to produce many pieces of furniture in this style for her. The pastoral trophy on the front of the commode was designed to match one of the trophies in
the wall-silk designed by Jacques Gondoin (1737-1818) in 1779 for the room and woven at Lyons by Jean Charton. The marquetry has faded now, but the natural and stained colours of the woods would once have included yellow, green, pink and blue, matching the original wall-silk.
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- Chest-of-drawers
- Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806)
- France
- c. 1782
- F248
- Dining Room
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- Corner-cupboard
- Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806)
- France
- 1783
- F275
- Study
- Bookmarkable URLCorner-cupboard of oak veneered with thuya burr wood and purpleheart, mounted with gilt bronze. Supplied by Riesener in February 1783 along with a desk (F303) for Marie-Antoinette’s private study at Versailles. The gilt-bronze trophy on the door includes references to Love and Bacchus on the cupboard door. The corner-cupboard must have been placed in the north-east or south-east corner of the room as sufficient space would have been needed on the west side of the room for the window shutters to have been pushed back into the corners.
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- Secretaire
- Marie-Antoinette's Secretaire
- Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806)
- France
- 1780
- F300
- Study
- Bookmarkable URLDelivered by Riesener on 8 July 1780 for Marie-Antoinette at Versailles, this drop-front writing desk is one of several similar pieces, some stamped by Jean-François Oeben and some by Riesener (who took over his workshop after Oeben’s death), all produced between the early 1760s and 1780. The transitional style of the desk, with its elaborate acanthus mounts and iconographical marquetry including the cockerel of France on the drop-front contrasting with the neo-classical male mounts on either side and marquetry urns on the lower doors, indicates that it would have been largely out-of-date as soon as it was delivered in 1780. Indeed, Marie-Antoinette only kept the piece in her cabinet intérieur or private study for three years, before replacing it with another, more feminine desk now also in the Wallace Collection (F303).
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- Plaque
- Workshop of Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806)
- France
- c. 1783
- F295
- Reserve Vault 2
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- Plaque
- Workshop of Jean-Henri Riesener (1734 - 1806)
- France
- c. 1783
- F296
- Reserve Vault 2
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