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A LOUIS XVI GILT-METAL MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND LINE INLAID BONHEUR DU JOUR

BY LÉONARD BOUDIN, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XVI GILT-METAL MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND LINE INLAID BONHEUR DU JOUR
BY LÉONARD BOUDIN, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The superstructure with a low gallery, a tambour front and two small drawers, a hinged, quarter-veneered and leather lined writing surface and covered compartments behind, the frieze with further small drawers and the sides quarter-veneered, on slender cabriole legs and sabot feet, stamped indistinctly to the underside 'L BOUDIN JME', some minor losses
39in. (100cm.) high, 25½in. (65cm.) wide, 18½in. (47cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Léonard Boudin, maître in 1761.

Boudin frequently worked with fellow ébénistes, producing both floral marquetry and lacquer furniture. He later became marchand-ébéniste, restamping pieces already bearing a name, and stamping 'old furniture'.
A very similar table, stamped by Guillaume Cordié, is illustrated in Pierre Kjellberg, Le Meuble Français et Européen du Moyen Âge a nos jours, Paris, 1991, page 272.

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