A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, SYCOMORE, FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY BONHEUR-DU-JOUR

BY ROGER VANDERCRUSE DIT LACROIX

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A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, SYCOMORE, FRUITWOOD AND MARQUETRY BONHEUR-DU-JOUR
By Roger Vandercruse dit Lacroix
Decorated overall with foliate vases and tea ceremony vessels, the pierced three-quarter galleried inverted breakfront top and ormolu-moulded border above a small drawer flanked by two doors, each enclosing a compartment with a dividing slide and a small drawer, the entrelac frieze enclosing a hinged gilt-tooled brown leather writing-surface concealing a further compartment and flanked by an inkwell, on cabriole legs headed by bearded masks and joined by a kidney-shaped undertier conformingly inlaid, on scrolled foliate sabots, Stamped 'R.V.L.C.' to the left of the underside
40 in. (101.5 cm.) high; 24½ in. (62 cm.) wide; 16 in. (41 cm.) deep

來源

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 24 November 1972, lot 109

拍品專文

Roger Vandercruse, maître in 1755.

A very similar bonheur-du-jour is in the Jones Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and is illustrated in O. Brackett, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, Part I-Furniture, London, 1922, n. 34, plate 21.

A number of related bonheurs-du-jour of this ébéniste are known:
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's London, 26 November 1971, lot 78.
The duc de Mortemont [+], sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 10 December 1935, lot 26.
Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 31 May 1934, lot 112.
Madame de Polès, sold, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22 June 1927, lot 293.