Lot 136
  • 136

Two Louis XV/XVI Tulipwood and Kingwood Bonheurs du Jour Circa 1760, Each stamped G Cordie, JME

Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Guillame Cordié maître in 1766
  • height of larger 40 1/2 in.; width 24 1/2 in.; depth 18 3/4 in.
  • (102.9cm; 62.2cm; 47.6cm)
the first with a three-quarter galleried superstructure with a pair of tambour doors, two small drawers and a shelf, the hinged projecting surface opening to a leather inset writing surface and a central well flanked by covered wells, two small drawers surrounding an arched kneehole, raised on slightly hipped cabriole legs ending in ormolu sabots and casters, the underside affixed with a small partial enamel plaque inscribed ... of ...ington, the second of similar form, with later ormolu mounts.

Provenance

The first, Sotheby Parke Bernet, April 7, 1979, lot 186
Sotheby's, New York, October 13, 1999, lot 282

The second, Property of the late right Honorable The Lord Wharton, Christie's, London, March 19, 1970, illustrated

Catalogue Note

Four similar bonheurs du jour by Cordié are illustrated, Nicolay, L'Art et la Manière des Maitres Ébènistes Français au XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1956, p.107-107 fig. D, E, F, H.