A MATCHED PAIR OF LOUIS XV PARQUETRY, KINGWOOD, MAHOGANY AND AMARANTH BONHEUR-DU-JOURS, one by G. Cordié, the other attributed to G. Cordié, each with three-quarter galleried top above two tambour shutter doors enclosing a shelf and two small drawers, one fitted, flanking a well, the hinged flap enclosing a black leather-lined writing-surface and three mahogany wells, the arched kneehole with two drawers, on tapering cabriole legs and ormolu-mounted feet, one stamped twice G. CORDIE JME

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A MATCHED PAIR OF LOUIS XV PARQUETRY, KINGWOOD, MAHOGANY AND AMARANTH BONHEUR-DU-JOURS, one by G. Cordié, the other attributed to G. Cordié, each with three-quarter galleried top above two tambour shutter doors enclosing a shelf and two small drawers, one fitted, flanking a well, the hinged flap enclosing a black leather-lined writing-surface and three mahogany wells, the arched kneehole with two drawers, on tapering cabriole legs and ormolu-mounted feet, one stamped twice G. CORDIE JME
25½in. (65cm.) wide; 39½in. (100.5cm.) high; 17½in. (44.5cm.) deep (2)

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Guillaume Cordié , maître in 1766.

Characteristic of Cordié's ouevre, these bonheur-du-jours are closely related to two illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIe Siècle, Paris 1989, p.185-6, figs A and C.

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