拍品专文
The elegantly serpentined table-frame, with floral-branch inlay in the Louis XV 'picturesque' manner, corresponds to that of a lady's cabinet of the mid-1770's displayed at the Victoria and Albert Museum (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, p.183, no. U/12, 635-1870). The bonheur-du-jour's rose-branch inlay also features on the latter cabinet and relates to that of a commode at Ham House, Richmond that has been attributed to the Paris-trained cabinet-maker Christopher Führlohg (d.c.1787) of Tottenham Court Road (Tomlin, op.cit., p.179). A similar bonheur-du-jour was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 28 February 1969, lot 134. Another, with the same ormolu mounts, acquired by George Harry Grey, 5th Earl of Stamford (d.1819) for Dunham Massey, Cheshire, has been attributed to John Cobb (d.1778) cabinet-maker to King George III (J. Hardy and G. Jackson-Stops, 'The Second Earl of Warrington and the Age of Walnut', Apollo, July 1978, p21, fig. 22).