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Lot Essay
Pierre Pioniez, matre in 1765.
With its characteristic 'naif' marquetry of cooking utensils and vases inspired by the borders of Chinese lacquer screens, this bonheur-du-jour typifies the 'antique' style popularised by the specialist marqueteur Charles Topino (matre in 1773) and his fellow bnistes Roger van der Cruse, dit Lacroix and Pierre Pioniez. This model of bonheur-du-jour was clearly developed by 1775, as the bniste du Roi Gilles Joubert (d.1775) delivered 'Un petit secrtaire de bois de rose reprsentant des paniers de fleurs, fruits, theyeres et tasses faon de la Chine......' to the Garde-meuble for the use of the comte d'Artois at Compigne'.
Related bonheurs-du-jour include that sold from the Beaumont Collection at Sotheby's Monaco, 4-6 December 1992, lot 19, as well as another sold anonymously at Christie's London, 9 December 1993, lot 86 (72,000).
With its characteristic 'naif' marquetry of cooking utensils and vases inspired by the borders of Chinese lacquer screens, this bonheur-du-jour typifies the 'antique' style popularised by the specialist marqueteur Charles Topino (matre in 1773) and his fellow bnistes Roger van der Cruse, dit Lacroix and Pierre Pioniez. This model of bonheur-du-jour was clearly developed by 1775, as the bniste du Roi Gilles Joubert (d.1775) delivered 'Un petit secrtaire de bois de rose reprsentant des paniers de fleurs, fruits, theyeres et tasses faon de la Chine......' to the Garde-meuble for the use of the comte d'Artois at Compigne'.
Related bonheurs-du-jour include that sold from the Beaumont Collection at Sotheby's Monaco, 4-6 December 1992, lot 19, as well as another sold anonymously at Christie's London, 9 December 1993, lot 86 (72,000).