CIRCA 1780, BY LEONARD BOUDIN

Details

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE BONHEUR DU JOUR
CIRCA 1780, BY LEONARD BOUDIN
The shaped grey and white marble top with three quarter gallery above a single drawer and leather-lined fall-front writing surface, the underside of top drawer marked 1339 in blue chalk, stamped 'L.BOUDIN' to base
41 ½ in. (105.4 cm.) high, 26 in. (66 cm.) wide, 13 in. (33 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 26 October 1994, lot 137.
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, 22 May 2002, lot 390.

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Lot Essay

Léonard Boudin, maître in 1761.

An almost identical Bonheur du jour by Nicolas Petit (maître in 1765) is illustrated in Collection Conaissance des Arts: French Cabinetmakers of the Eighteenth Century, 1963, pp. 206-207.

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