Martin Carlin

Martin Carlin (ca 1730 – 1785) was a Parisian ébéniste, born at Freiburg, who was received master at Paris in 1766.

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• In the frame 125 years jewel cabinet by martin carlin
• Collection
• References

Carlin worked at first in the shop of Jean-François Oeben, whose sister he married. He set up independently in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, an unfashionable quarter of Paris, where few of his wealthy clientele would have penetrated. Carlin sold his works exclusively to marchands-merciers such as Simon-Philippe Poirier and his partner Dominique Daguerre, who acted as decorator-designers. It was only through these entrepreneurs that Carlin could acquire the Sèvres porcelain plaques that decorate many of his pieces. His earliest such pieces are datable by the marks on their porcelain to 1766; they followed designs supplied by the dealer Poirier. Although Martin Carlin made some larger pieces— secrétaires à abattant (drop-front secretary desks), tables, and commodes— he is best known for refined small furnishings in neoclassical taste, some of them veneered with cut up panels of Chinese lacquer, which he would also have received from the hands of the marchands-merciers.

Collection

Bonheur du jour (Table à gradin dite )

Bonheur du jour, 1765, Bowes Museum, UK

Bonheur du jour, 1766, Musée Nissim de Camondo, France

Bonheur du jour, 1766, Waddesdon Manor, UK

Bonheur du jour, 1768, Boughton House, UK

Bonheur du jour, 1768, delivered to the Comtesse du Barry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Bonheur du jour, 1769, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Bonheur du jour, 1770, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Bonheur du jour, 1770, The Huntington Library, United States

Bonheur du jour, 1770, Waddesdon Manor, UK

Bonheur du jour, 1771, The Huntington Library, United States

Bonheur du jour, 1774, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Bureau plat (Writing table)

Bureau plat, 1778, delivered to the Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna and Grand Duke Paul Petrovich of Russia for the Palace of Pavlosk, Getty Museum, United States

Cabinet

Cabinet, c. 1783, Royal Collection, UK

Coffret à bijoux

Coffret à bijoux, 1770, delivered to Marie-Antoinette for the Petit Triannon, Château de Versailles, France

Coffret à bijoux, c. 1770, delivered to the Comtesse du Barry, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Coffret à bijoux, c. 1774, delivered to the Grand Duchess Maria Feodorovna and Grand Duke Paul Petrovich of Russia for the Palace of Pavlosk, The Detroit Institute of Arts, United States

Coffret à bijoux, c. 1775, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Coffret à bijoux, c. 1775, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, United States

Commode à vantaux (Commode with doors)

Commode à vantaux, c. 1778, inset with Pietra Dure panels (one of Carlin's greatest examples), Royal Collection, UK

Encoignure (Corner cabinet)

Pair of Encoignures, 1772, Wallace Collection, UK

Music-stand

Music-stand, 1770-75, Getty Museum, United States

Music-stand and writing-table

Music-stand and writing-table, 1786, given by Marie-Antoinette to Mrs William Eden (later Lady Auckland), V&A, UK

Reading stand

Reading stand, c. 1780, V&A, UK

Secrétaire

Secrétaire, 1775, Getty Museum, United States

Secrétaire, 1776, Wallace Collection, UK

Secrétaire, 1776-77, Getty Museum, United States

Secrétaire à abattant

Secrétaire à abattant, 1770-80, V&A, UK

Table à ouvrage

Table à ouvrage, 1770. delivered to the duchesse de Mazarin in 1779 for her dressing room, Getty Museum, United States

Table à ouvrage, 1773, Getty Museum, United States

Table à ouvrage, 1775, V&A, UK

Table à ouvrage, 1783-84, Wallace Collection, UK

Table à ouvrage, 1786, given by Marie-Antoinette to Mrs William Eden (later Lady Auckland), V&A, UK