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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED JAPANESE LACQUER AND VERNIS MARTIN BUREAU DE PENTE BY JACQUES DUBOIS, DELIVERED BY JACQUES-FRAN?OIS MACHART IN 1755 The slant-front lacquer panel decorated with geese amidst foliage on a black ground, with gilt-tooled red leather to the reverse, enclosing a red painted fitted interior, the well interior reusing a Chinese lacquer panel, on cabriole legs, mounted overall with scrolling foliage, flowerheads and rocaille motif encadrements, chutes and sabots, stamped 'I DUBOIS' and 'JME', numbered in black '2002' 36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 20 ? in. (53 cm.) wide; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) deep
Jacques Dubois, ma?tre in 1742.
Embellished with costly Japanese lacquer panels and vernis martin, this jewel-like bureau de pente by Jacques Dubois is a fascinating discovery having been identified as the desk delivered by the marchand-mercier Jacques-Fran?ois Machart on the 21 August 1755, to Louis XV’s celebrated mistress, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764). The number ‘2002’ visible to the underside of the desk indeed refers to an entry made by the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne for the furnishing of Madame de Pompadour’s apartment at the chateau de Choisy, one of the King’s favorite residences:
Du 21 ao?t 1755. Livré par le Sr Machar marchand pour servir dans l’appartement de la marquise de Pompadour au chateau de Choisy.
‘N. 2002 Un secrétaire de laque aussi à figures et fleurs chinoises fermant à clef, ayant dedans une tablette, trois tiroirs dont un garni d’encrier poudrier et bo?te à éponge de cuivre et une trape à secret, long de 20 pouces sur 14 pouces de profondeur et 34 de haut’.
The secrétaire was delivered together with a commode, also in lacquer, described under the number 2001: ‘une commode de laque à figure et fleurs chinoises et dessus de marbre brèche d’Alep ayant par devant deux grands tiroirs fermant à clef…’ and a ‘petite table vide poche en marquetrie de fleurs …’ under number 2003.
Although the two lacquer pieces were positioned in Madame de Pompadour’s bedroom, the ‘petite table’ was finally placed in the Queen Marie Leszczynska’s apartment.
The secrétaire and the commode were both still recorded in Madame de Pompadour’s bedroom at the time of her death, located on the ground floor next to the King’s apartment, in 1764:
‘2002 Un secrétaire aussi de laque à figures et fleurs chinoises fermant à clefayant au dedans une tablette, trois tiroirs don’t un garni d’encrier, poudrier et bo?te à éponge de cuivre et unr trape à secret, long de 20 pouces sur 14 de profondeur et 34 de haut.’