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Parts gilded in imitation of metal mounts. Gilt brass keyhole escutcheons. Of pedestal form supported on eight straight square legs with carved and gilded cappings and bases. The feet of bun type, carved and gilded in the form of acanthus tips. The legs, stiles and horizontals veneered with a marquetry of arabesques and stylised foliage. Short curved stretchers link the outer pairs of legs at front and back and are themselves joined by straight stretchers. These in turn are linked by a straight central stretcher, widening into an oval shape in the middle. All the stretchers are decorated with floral marquetry. Three drawers at each side and a central drawer between. Below this a cupboard recessed in the kneehole. Drawer fronts and cupboard door decorated with floral\r\nmarquetry within stringing lines. 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The drawers in the two banks of drawers in the upper case are marked with ink, pencil and crayon, the numbers running in two opposing sequences. The internal drawers are only marked in red crayon or ink.\nAll Montargis labels now in FF15/CB39/2."},{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"3 labels, originally inscribed in ink, but now illegible, originally glued to the case top but now in the departmental archive.  One was said (by Gillian Wilson, 1970s) to have repeated the text of the one set by Miss Coutts Trotter inside the drawer recess (see next entry).  The other two had been stuck one on top of the other. The top one appeared by the handwriting to date from the mid-18th or early 19th century.  The one underneath could be late 17th or early 18th century in date. This seems to have been put on before the cabinet was painted black. "},{"content":"4th part of the 5 pieces of furniture taken out of the Chateau de Montargis when under demolition 18.. by order of Louis Philippe bought by me and presented to the South Kensington museum - 1881","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"In inscription on paper label (now removed to departmental archive), originally glued inside the space that houses the middle drawer in the left bank"}],"objectHistory":"This bureau was given to the South Kensington Museum in 1882, as part of a group of furniture bequeathed by Miss Margaret Coutts Trotter (1809-1882). The group had, by repute, been part of the furnishings at the château de Montargis in 1832: other pieces in the group arrived in the Museum with labels attached to them, written by Margaret Coutts Trotter, that stated: 'during the Reign of Louis Philippe / the Chateau of Montargis near / Fontainebleau was entirely / cleared out and destroyed / I saw the whole of the furniture / de salle, put together for sale / [I] bought it as it stood' (label attached to 1041-1882).\n\nThe history of the pieces is undocumented, but it is possible that they were acquired by Philippe I duc d'Orléans (1640-1701) for one of his residences and then later removed to Montargis after his death. In the 17th century the duc d'Orleans had negotiated the construction of a canal from Orleans to Montargis, to join another canal linking the Loire and the Loing rivers, thus linking the town to Paris, about 100 kilometres to the north and greatly facilitating trade. The château de Montargis stayed in the possession of the Orléans family until the late 18th century. From 1791 it changed hands several times over a short period, before eventually being demolished in the 25 years between 1810 and 1834. Towards the end of the demolition process the contents of the château were sold. The group of furniture that is now in the V&amp;A was bought by Coutts Trotter at an undocumented sale at the château in around 1832.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Bureau Mazarin, French, 1680-1700, from Château de Montargis","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Alcouffe, Daniel, Geoffrey de Bellaigue, Christian Baulez, Denise Ledoux-Lebard, <i>Il Mobile Francese dal Medievo al 1925</i>. 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