Combination Gaming and Writing Table, ca. 1775

  • Claude-Charles Saunier, French, 1735-1807

Leather, felt, tulipwood and kingwood, and ormolu

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

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

71.197

On View

  • Fashionable Living: Kanzler Room S330.6

Department

European Sculpture and Dec Arts

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,

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, not paginated. A Catalogue of Works of Art in the Collection of Anna Thompson Dodge, 2 vols. Detroit, 1939, vol. I, not paginated. 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, no. 13, pp. 71–74, (ill.) pp. 72–73. Secrest, Meryle. Duveen: a life in art. New York, 2004, p. 437.

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.