Lot 162
162
A TULIPWOOD AND PARQUETRY BONHEUR-DU-JOUR, the arched three-quarter-galleried top above a herring-bone tambour-slide enclosing a fitted interior with six pigeon-holes, the galleried platform inlaid with simulated panels and boxwood lines above a frieze drawer and on hipped cabriole legs and tapering feet, restorations

Details
A TULIPWOOD AND PARQUETRY BONHEUR-DU-JOUR, the arched three-quarter-galleried top above a herring-bone tambour-slide enclosing a fitted interior with six pigeon-holes, the galleried platform inlaid with simulated panels and boxwood lines above a frieze drawer and on hipped cabriole legs and tapering feet, restorations
27½in. (70cm.) wide; 41in. (104cm.) high; 17in. (43cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonymous Sale in these Rooms, 26 March 1981, lot 81

Lot Essay

A related bonheur du jour attributed to G.Cordié sold in these Rooms, 4 December 1975, lot 78. Guillaume Cordié, maître in 1766, specialised in this type of furniture (see J. Nicolay L'Art et la Manière des Maîtres Ebenistes Francis au XVIII Siécle, Paris 1956, p.106-7, figs. D,E & H

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