Beschreibung:

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU AND SÈVRES PORCELAIN-MOUNTED AMARANTH, SYCAMORE AND BOIS SATINÉ JEWEL COFFER Attributed to Martin Carlin stamped SCHNEIDER, Circa 1778, the lower two tiers and columnar legs executed by Schneider to complete an existing Carlin Jewel Coffer, blue interlaced L's enclosing date letters aa for 1778 to three plaques, one with the painter's mark LG for le Guay l'aîné , the other plaques attributed to Edmé-François Bouillat The coffer inlaid overall with ebonised and boxwood banding, the rectangular hinged top with a central oval Sèvres porcelain plaque painted with a basket of flowers and flanked by two concave sided rectangular plaques of sprays of flowers, all within leaftip ormolu surrounds, opening to reveal an interior veneered in tulipwood; the case with a Sèvres porcelain basket of flowers at each side, the front with a large shaped lappet with a fringed ormolu-molded edge painted with a hunting trophy overlapping a rectangular Sèvres plaque with a laurel leaf cluster escutcheon below; the base with a tulipwood-veneered single frieze drawer fitted with a green velvet writing-slide and applied to the front with Sèvres porcelain panels, the whole raised on shaped, tapered stop-fluted columnar legs joined by two concave-fronted white marble undertiers, each with full ormolu bandings, the legs ending in toupie feet, previously with casters, the legs and undertiers probably executed by Schneider, the drawer with rectangular paper label inscribed in black ink 106/44 , three plaques with date letter aa for 1778, and eleven with original Sèvres labels with prices inscribed in ink 39in. (99cm.) high, 21½in. (54.5cm.) wide, 14½in. (37cm.) deep