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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE BONHEUR DU JOUR
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A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE BONHEUR DU JOUR

CIRCA 1780, BY LEONARD BOUDIN

Closed15 June 2016

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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

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

Specialist note

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.