Combination Gaming and Writing Table

ca. 1775

Claude-Charles Saunier French, 1735-1807

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Fashionable Living: Kanzler Room, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Combination Gaming and Writing Table

Artwork Date ca. 1775

Artist Claude-Charles Saunier

Life Dates 1735-1807

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Leather, felt, tulipwood and kingwood, and ormolu

Dimensions Overall: 28 × 44 5/8 × 23 7/16 inches (71.1 × 113.3 × 59.5 cm)

Classification Furniture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.197

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Marks Stamp, under one of the side rails: C. C. Saunier [JME guild mark] Two tan labels, affixed to the bottom panels at either side, inscribed in ink: 28554 [a Duveen Bros. inventory number] Label, under the central bottom panel: [a fragment of a label used by the Parisian packing firm of Chenue] N

Provenance

Henry M.W. Oppenheim (London, England);
June 10-12, 16-17, 1913, sold by (Christie's, London, England) Oppenheim sale, lot 181;
purchased by (Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA);
Mrs. George D. Widener (?);
1932, (Duveen Brothers, New York, New York, USA);
1932, acquired by Anna Thomson Dodge, Grosse Pointe, Michigan,

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Published References

Sales cat., Christie's. London, June 10-12, 16-17, 1913, lot 181.

A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thomson Dodge. Detroit, 1933, [unpaginated].

A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thompson Dodge, vol. 1. Detroit, 1939, [unpaginated].

Winokur, Ronald L. "The Mr. and Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Memorial Collection." Bulletin of the DIA 50, no. 3 (1971): pp. 43-51.

Platt, Frederick. America's Gilded Age: Its Architecture and Decoration. New York, 1976, p. 122.

Dell, T., et al. The Dodge Collection of Eighteenth-Century French and English Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York and Detroit, 1996, pp. 71-74, no. 13; pp. 72-73 (ill.).

Secrest, Meryle. Duveen: A Life in Art. New York, 2004, p. 437.

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Claude-Charles Saunier, Combination Gaming and Writing Table, ca. 1775, leather, felt, tulipwood and kingwood, and ormolu. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Mrs. Horace E. Dodge in memory of her husband, 71.197.