Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 57
SECRETAIRE IN BRASS AND RED SHELLWORK. place without his borrowing, often at great interest,the means of buying. It was a mania of whichit was impossible to cure him. Boulle died February 29th, 1732. If his fortunedeclined, it is pleasant to remember thai his lamecontinued to nourish during his… … EIGHT-LEGGED KNEE-HOLE TABLE IN OLD SHELL WORK, BRASS AND WHITE METAL of his finest works. In 1708, when Louis XIVwas in his great period of adversity, he still employsBoulle. The Due dAntin writes to him, I havebeen to Trianon to see the second bureau of Boulle.It is as fine as the other, and…
