. Catalogue of the furniture, marbles, bronzes, clocks, candelabra, majolica, porcelain, glass, jewelery, goldsmith's and silversmith's work, ivories, medals, illuminations, miniatures, and objects of art generally, in the Wallace collection . ng of the bronzes is by Boizot ; the execution andchasing by Thomire. (See Molinier, ( La Collection Wallace.*) French. Late Style and Period of Louis Seize. 6. Secretaire of amboyna wood, decorated with plaques of Sevres porcelain ; on the small plaque, in the centre of thesupports which connect the legs at their base, is the mono-gram of Queen Marie-An
. Catalogue of the furniture, marbles, bronzes, clocks, candelabra, majolica, porcelain, glass, jewelery, goldsmith's and silversmith's work, ivories, medals, illuminations, miniatures, and objects of art generally, in the Wallace collection . ng of the bronzes is by Boizot ; the execution andchasing by Thomire. (See Molinier, ( La Collection Wallace.*) French. Late Style and Period of Louis Seize. 6. Secretaire of amboyna wood, decorated with plaques of Sevres porcelain ; on the small plaque, in the centre of thesupports which connect the legs at their base, is the mono-gram of Queen Marie-Antoinette. The mounts and ornaments are of bronze, cast, chased, and gilt. By Adam Weisweiller. French. Style and Period of Louis Seize. 7. Vase of bleu-du-roi Sevres porcelain, painted with fantastic groups of monkeys ( Singer ies ) in gold on the blue. The mount, of gilt bronze, is of the Late Louis-Seize Style andPeriod. 8. The companion Vase to No. 7. 9. Vase of plain gros-bleu Sevres, with a mount of gilt bronze, of the Late Style and Period of Louis Seize. 10. Console Table of wood, elaborately carved and gilt throughout, with a frieze and decoration of pierced anddetached work. French. Style and Period of Louis Seize. Gallery Cartonnier of pale-green lacquer and gilt bronze, by 59. Page 249. GALLERY XX. 249 11. Secretaire of mahogany, inlaid with geometrical patterns in boxwood and ebony. The mounts, of bronze, cast, chased, and gilt, enclose plaques ofSevres porcelain, painted with a Farmyard Scene, and with SmallLandscapes, these last being framed in apple-green borders. Ascribed to Martin Carlin. French. Style and Period of Louis Seize. 12. G-ueridon of mahogany, with mounts of bronze, cast, chased, and gilt. The top is formed of a large decorative plaque of Sevres porcelain,with a border of gros-bleu and green, and a central subject of ExoticBirds on a white ground. The plaque is of the year 1755, or thereabouts. French. The gueridon, as a whole, mar
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