拍品 43
43
The Property of the late LT. COLONEL JOHN CHANDOS-POLE, C.V.O., O.B.E. Sold by Order of the Executors
A LOUIS XV AMARANTH AND TULIPWOOD PARQUETRY BONHEUR DE JOUR veneered à quatrefaces, the serpentine superstructure with quarter-veneered top centred by a cartouche, above a pair of tambour doors enclosing six cedar-lined drawers, above a serpentine writing-surface and a drawer enclosing two side drawers and a green leather-lined slope, above a further pair of tambour doors and on cabriole legs and foliate sabots, one of the upper tambour doors damaged, two drawers with paper label inscribed in ink 584 752507

细节
A LOUIS XV AMARANTH AND TULIPWOOD PARQUETRY BONHEUR DE JOUR veneered à quatrefaces, the serpentine superstructure with quarter-veneered top centred by a cartouche, above a pair of tambour doors enclosing six cedar-lined drawers, above a serpentine writing-surface and a drawer enclosing two side drawers and a green leather-lined slope, above a further pair of tambour doors and on cabriole legs and foliate sabots, one of the upper tambour doors damaged, two drawers with paper label inscribed in ink 584 752507
27¾in. (70.5cm.) wide; 35¾in. (91cm.) high; 16in. (41cm.) deep

拍品专文

This lady's multi-functional secretaire, with frieze drawer and raised compartment for books, etc., was known in the 1770s as a bonheur du jour. Its serpentined form, geometric 'parquetry' panels of tulipwood and 'false book-back' or 'library' tambours, correspond to those of a secretaire-table bearing the brand of Pierre Denizot (d. 1782) who was appointed a master ébéniste in 1760, sold in these Rooms, 23 June 1988, lot 81. In the 1770s his workshops in the rue Neuve-Saint Roch provided furniture for Charles, Comte d' Artois (d. 1836), brother of Louis XVI, and for various royal palaces