A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY BONHEUR DU JOUR in the manner of Topino, inlaid overall with a pictoral marquetry including a flower-filled vase, an inkstand and quiver, books and a teapot, the canted top with a superstructure of six small drawers, banded in ormolu, above a frieze drawer, with a compartmented interior and hinged writing flap, the legs united by a galleried undertier, terminating with claw sabots, second half 19th century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY BONHEUR DU JOUR in the manner of Topino, inlaid overall with a pictoral marquetry including a flower-filled vase, an inkstand and quiver, books and a teapot, the canted top with a superstructure of six small drawers, banded in ormolu, above a frieze drawer, with a compartmented interior and hinged writing flap, the legs united by a galleried undertier, terminating with claw sabots, second half 19th century
26½in. (67.5cm.) wide; 35in. (89cm.) high; 18¾in. (47.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Such idiosyncractic trompe l'oeil marquetry, in imitation of lacquer paintings of Chinese objects and flower-vases, is associated with the specialist 18th century marqueteur Charles Topino. The same patterns appear on two related tables illustrated in C. Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, Woodbridge, 1985, p. 124.

A bonheur du jour with related marquetry is illustrated in Andre Boutemy, Meubles Français Anonymes du XVIIIe Siecle, Bruxelles, 1973, p. 22.

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