A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH MARQUETRY BUREAU-PLAT

CIRCA 1750, STAMPED L. BOUDIN JME

Details

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH MARQUETRY BUREAU-PLAT
Circa 1750, stamped l. boudin jme
The serpentine rectangular brown leather-inset top within a brass molded border mounted with rocaille-cast corners, above three shaped frieze drawers with rocaille escutcheons, the reverse with similar sham drawers, flanked by ruffle and foliate-case chutes continuing down to cabriole legs terminating in rocaille sabots, inlaid overall with floral marquetry, partially remounted
32in. (81cm,.) high, 62in. (157cm.) wide, 31 in. (79cm.) deep

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, 20 November 1993, lot 224

Lot Essay

Léonard Boudin, maître in 1761

A similar bureau plat by Boudin also with rocaille-cast mounts and similar chutes but without the floral marquetry was sold at Drouot, Paris, 15 June 1984, lot 110, illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 93