Chats on old furniture : a practical guide for collectors (1906)
Hayden, Arthur, 1868-1946 · New York : F. A. Stokes · leaf 202
h February, 1769. This piece, it issaid, was ordered by Stanislas Leczinski, King ofPoland, and was once one of the possessions ofthe Crown of France. FRENCH FURNITURE 197 With regard to the cost of pieces of furnitureby the great master ebetiistes, it is on record thata secretaire which was… … LOUIS XVI. RIESENER COMMODE. with mounts by Gouthiere, now in the possessionof the King, was copied about twenty-five yearsago for the Marquis of Hertford, by permissionof Queen Victoria. The piece took years to com-plete, and it is interesting to have the evidence of itscopyists that the most…
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