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Message:: [QUOTE="Barbara W. Preston, post: 3953814, member: 13943"]Are you certain that the first etagere you are showing is Mallard?  There has been a good amount of research here in the south about his work and nothing has been found in the New Orleans area that indicates that he had anything but a large showroom from which he sold pieces from several manufacturers, on being J & JW Meeks. It seems that most of the pieces that he sold as Mallard pieces were made in France and he had ships that brought rare woods up from South American and Central America that he sent to France with plans for commissioned pieces and then were picked up by the ships headed for SA and CA for wood and then returned to NO with the completed commissioned pieces. Also, it seems that there were other furniture makers who also used the egg and ribbon motif on their pieces.At the museum where I volunteer we had an etagere that we were told was a Mallard piece by the family that placed it there on loan.  Then in researching all of our pieces, I found this picture of an etagere in reference book on antique prices that was exactly like the one at the museum and it was referenced as a J&JW Meeks piece. There is a fine article by NED HÉMARD in New Orleans Nostalgia, "Mallards in New Orleans," Copyright 2006 that tells about Prudence Mallard.[/QUOTE]