A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE with three-quarter key-pattern galleried top and solid cylinder inlaid with domestic utensils, vases of flowers and writing equipment in the Chinese style with a letter inscribed Paris, framed by green-stained key-pattern borders enclosing a leather-lined writing-slide and four drawers between matted ormolu angles, the frieze with two drawers, similarly inlaid sans traverse , the sides also inlaid on cabriole legs headed by Joseph-style angle-mounts, stamped L. BOUDIN and JME twice, the leather of the writing slide tooled with interlaced L monogram below a French crown
Details
A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY BUREAU A CYLINDRE with three-quarter key-pattern galleried top and solid cylinder inlaid with domestic utensils, vases of flowers and writing equipment in the Chinese style with a letter inscribed Paris, framed by green-stained key-pattern borders enclosing a leather-lined writing-slide and four drawers between matted ormolu angles, the frieze with two drawers, similarly inlaid sans traverse , the sides also inlaid on cabriole legs headed by Joseph-style angle-mounts, stamped L. BOUDIN and JME twice, the leather of the writing slide tooled with interlaced L monogram below a French crown
33in. (84cm.) wide; 38½in. (98cm.) high; 19¾in. (50cm.) deep
Exhibited
Edinburgh, Royal Scottish Museum, Treasures from scottish houses, 21st Edinburgh International Festival, August-September 1967, no. 255, (lent anonymously)