BY LEONARD BOUDIN, CIRCA 1765

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT
BY LEONARD BOUDIN, CIRCA 1765
With serpentine-fronted breche d'Alep marble top above a fall front opening to four small walnut-lined drawers beneath a niche and to a green leather-lined writing surface, the lower part with a pair of cupboard doors enclosing a shelf, the front and sides inlaid with bouquets of flowers, stamped twice L BOUDIN and JME, to right side beneath marble, interior drawers stenciled three times 14968, the underside of marble inscribed Wale...30...50
44 in.(112 cm.) high, 23 in. (60 cm.) wide, 14 in. (37.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Mrs. A.S. Walser, 1929.
With French & Company, New York.
Collection of the late Thelma Chrysler Foy; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, May 13, 1959, lot 323.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 25 May 2000, lot 286.

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Lot Essay

Léonard Boudin, maître in 1761.

A secretaire of identical design was sold anonymously, Sotheby's, London, June 25, 1982, lot 132. Another is in the Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance collection, reproduced in A. Pradere, Les Ebénistes Français de Louis XIV à la Revolution, 1989, p.271. A similar unsigned example was in the collection of Martha Baird Rockefeller, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 23, 1971, lot 709, illustrated.

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