Lot 29

A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, BOIS SATINE, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY BONHEUR-DU-JOUR

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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, BOIS SATINE, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY BONHEUR-DU-JOUR

BY LEONARD BOUDIN, CIRCA 1765-70

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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, BOIS SATINE, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY BONHEUR-DU-JOUR
BY LEONARD BOUDIN, CIRCA 1765-70
With rectangular three-quarter galleried breakfront top above an open compartment above a short drawer flanked by a pair of cupboard doors above a frieze drawer mounted with entrelac, on cabriole legs headed by foliate chutes and joined by an incurved rectangular undertier, ending in foliate sabots, inlaid throughout with trellis parquetry enclosing quatrefoils and with floral spray medallions stamped BOUDIN JME to the back rail
40 in. (101.6 cm.) high, 24 in. (61 cm.) wide, 15 ½ in. (39.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Acquired from Maurice Segoura, Paris, November 1987.

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Please note additional provenance for this lot:

The Earls of Mansfield, Scone Palace, Perthshire.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 11 July 1980, lot 164.

This bonheur du jour was probably acquired by the noted Francophile collector David Murray, 2nd Earl of Mansfield and 7th Viscount Stormont (d. 1796) in the mid 1770s during his service as George III's ambassador to the court of Louis XVI, when he acquired other superb pieces of French furniture including the celebrated petit table by Riesener for Marie-Antoinette’s cabinet intérieur at Versailles, which remains at Scone.

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Lot Essay

Léonard Boudin, maître in 1761.
Léonard Boudin was particularly renowned for the quality of his masterful inlay, a skill he learned while apprenticed to the ébéniste, Pierre II Migeon (d. 1758). In 1772, he began retailing furniture from premises on the rue Fromenteau, five years later he moved to the cloister of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois. As a marchand-ébéniste, his stamp is often found alongside that of RVLC, Evald, Denizot and Gilbert, indicating that Boudin retailed these pieces on behalf of these ébénistes. Boudin worked not only with marquetry and parquetry veneers, but also with Chinese lacquer and japanned panels imitating Chinese lacquer.

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