Lot Essay
Martin Guillaume Cramer, maître in 1771
An identical bonheur du jour stamped by Cramer from the collection of the marquis de Biron was sold at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9-11 June 1914, lot 366. This type of marquetry was further used by Cramer on two writing-tables, one sold anonymously Palais Galliera, Paris, 28 November 1972, lot 142 and the other from the collection of M.Akkram Ojjeh, sold Sotheby's Monaco, 25 June 1979, lot 160. A bureau plat, attributed to Cramer, formerly in the collections of Mrs. Derek Fitzgerald and then Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, was sold anonymously at Christie's Monaco, 20 June 1994, lot 307.
The marquetry further relates to the work of Niclas Petit, Jean-Henri Riesener and Roger Vandercruse dit Lacroix such as on a bonheur du jour in the collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey (Apollo, December 1965, p. 481, fig. 7).
An identical bonheur du jour stamped by Cramer from the collection of the marquis de Biron was sold at Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 9-11 June 1914, lot 366. This type of marquetry was further used by Cramer on two writing-tables, one sold anonymously Palais Galliera, Paris, 28 November 1972, lot 142 and the other from the collection of M.Akkram Ojjeh, sold Sotheby's Monaco, 25 June 1979, lot 160. A bureau plat, attributed to Cramer, formerly in the collections of Mrs. Derek Fitzgerald and then Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, was sold anonymously at Christie's Monaco, 20 June 1994, lot 307.
The marquetry further relates to the work of Niclas Petit, Jean-Henri Riesener and Roger Vandercruse dit Lacroix such as on a bonheur du jour in the collection of the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey (Apollo, December 1965, p. 481, fig. 7).