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Lot 159
A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BUREAU A PUPITRE
BY MARTIN CARLIN, LAST QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Closed13 December 2018
Price Realised
GBP 10,000
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Martin Carlin, maître in 1766.
Arguably the most celebrated ébéniste of the Louis XVI period, Martin Carlin is known for his delicate and multi-functional furniture. Married to the sister of fellow cabinetmaker Jean-François Oeben and established au signe de la Colombe in the Grand-Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Carlin worked almost exclusively for the marchand-merciers Simon-Philippe Poirier and his partner Dominique Daguerre. Executed for a library or cabinet, the complex mechanism of this pupitre suggests it was most probably a commission. A related bureau à écrire debout to the present lot formerly in the collection of Sir Richard Wallace, rue Lafitte, Paris, sold Sotheby's Monaco, 4-5 March 1984, lot 485 (illustrated. in F. J. B. Watson, Le Meuble Louis XVI, Paris, 1963, no.135, and P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture - III, London, 1996, p.1542).
Arguably the most celebrated ébéniste of the Louis XVI period, Martin Carlin is known for his delicate and multi-functional furniture. Married to the sister of fellow cabinetmaker Jean-François Oeben and established au signe de la Colombe in the Grand-Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine, Carlin worked almost exclusively for the marchand-merciers Simon-Philippe Poirier and his partner Dominique Daguerre. Executed for a library or cabinet, the complex mechanism of this pupitre suggests it was most probably a commission. A related bureau à écrire debout to the present lot formerly in the collection of Sir Richard Wallace, rue Lafitte, Paris, sold Sotheby's Monaco, 4-5 March 1984, lot 485 (illustrated. in F. J. B. Watson, Le Meuble Louis XVI, Paris, 1963, no.135, and P. Hughes, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Furniture - III, London, 1996, p.1542).