Jean Dunand exhibited the present lot in 1930 in his “Boudoir” at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in Paris. In 1941 the dressing table was acquired by the Mobilier National, the French state collection of furniture and tapestries, as part of a larger purchase from Jean Dunand’s atelier. The Mobilier National acquired the work in an effort to keep the firm’s artisans employed during the Second World War, thereby saving them from being sent to Germany under the terms of a Nazi work program. In 1972 the dressing table was officially sold or “vendue par les domaines.” The armchair designed for use with the dressing table and exhibited with it in 1930 remains in the collection of the Mobilier National.