Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
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ener in popular favour. He was born atNieuwiecl, in Germany, about 1745, and became amaster ebeniste, thanks to the patronage of MarieAntoinette in 1780. He was, however, not aresident in France, but had his workshops in hisnative town, from which he used to make periodic•visits to Paris. The… … 246 THE MAGAZINE OF AET. is in the boudoir of the Marquise de Serilly (No.1,736), which is set up in another part of themuseum. A third example is the large writing-table (No. 1,076), with Sevres plaques and twofigure groups on the top, which M. de Champeauxregards as the most interesting of all…
