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PUBLICATIONS NOTES
Burton B. Fredericksen, ed., The J. Paul Getty Mu- 1. Carlton House: The Past Glories of George iv's Palace
seum (London, 1975), p. 181; Wilson 1977, p. 88,
no. 113; Sevres Porcelain from the Royal Collection: The (The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, 1991-92.),
Queen's Gallery (London, c. 1979), pp. 31-32-, no. n; pp. 96-97, no. 49. Acquired by George iv from an
Lunsingh Seheurleer 1980, p. 308, fig. 2-75; Michel Beur- unknown source, it was in the Rose Satin Drawing Room
deley, La France a Vencan, 1789-1799 (Fribourg, 1981), at Carlton House by 1813. It is now at Windsor Castle.
p. 118; Hans Ottomeyer and Peter Proschel, Vergoldete 2. Collection of Madame Vigier, Palais Galliera, Paris,
Bronzen: Die Bronzearbeiten des Spdtbarock und Klas- June 2-3, 1970, no. 82,.
sizismus (Munich, 1986), vol. i, pp. 2,68-69; Rosalind 3. Watson and Dauterman 1966-70, vol. 3, pp. 70-74,
Savill, Sevres (London, 1988), vol. i, p. 469; Bremer- no. 306.
David et al. 1993, p. 157, no. 2,66. 4. Juliette Niclausse, Thomire, fondeur-dseleur (1751-
1843): Sa vie, son oeuvre (Paris, 1947), pis. 8^9.
PROVENANCE 5. W.M. 86162-1948.
6. See Pierre Verlet, French Royal Furniture (London,
(?) Princess Isabella Lubomirska, after circa 1793; 1963), p. 69: "During the Directory, the Princess Potocki
Count Alfred Potocki, Castle Lancut, Poland, by descent, bought twenty coachloads of furniture in Paris for their
removed 1944; Rosenberg and Stiebel, New York, 1953;
acquired by J. Paul Getty from Rosenberg and Stiebel in castles in Poland. The dealers assured them, rightly or
December 1953.
wrongly, that it all came from Versailles." The name
Potocki does not appear in the lists of buyers at the Revo-
lutionary sales nor is the name found among similar lists
of buyers of objects excluded from the public sales. I am
grateful to Christian Baulez for this information.
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