A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BONHEUR-DU-JOUR

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU AND PORCELAIN-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BONHEUR-DU-JOUR
SECOND QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

With three-quarter galleried demi-lune inset white marble top above a frieze mounted with foliate-cast mounts above a pair of cabinet doors mounted with ribbon-entwined garlands suspending oval plaques decorated with floral garlands, the sides with demi-lune inset marble shelves, with rounded rectangular base above a slide and four similarly mounted drawers, the sides similarly mounted, on tapering fluted legs headed by berried laurel capitals and ending in toupie sabots, the case stencilled 'R29' and with a paper label inscribed 'E de R. No.10'-48in. (122cm.) high, 31in. (80cm.) wide, 18¾in. (48cm.) deep

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This piece is part of a group of porcelain-mounted furniture made in the 19th century, probably in England, which often incorporates 18th century elements. Many examples such as this one imitate the style of Riesener even thought he was not known to have produced this type of furniture. Other nearly identical bonheur-du-jours are in the Worcester Museum of Art (illustrated in C. Packer, Paris Furniture by the Master Ebénistes, 1956, fig.152) and formerly in the collection of Alphose de Rothschild (illustrated in S.de Ricci, Le Style Louis XVI, n.d., pl.130).