A Louis XV ormolu-mounted kingwood, tulipwood and marquetry table en chiffonnière circa 1750, stamped Delorme

Marquetry with age and construction cracks, lifting in areas and small scattered losses. Most damaged area in upper right corner of front. Ormolu with traces of oxidation, rubbing and surface dirt. In otherwise good condition.
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A table with identical marquetry inlay and ormolu corner mounts was sold The Alexander Collection, Christie's New York, 30 April, 1999, lot 69. Interestingly, that table bore the stamp of the ébéniste Péridiez and not that of Adrien Delorme. A number of other tables of this form with comparable marquetry and ormolu mounts are known today; some stamped by Delorme, some by Péridiez and some by yet another maker: Adrien-Antoine Gosselin. Tables stamped by Delorme include one from the collection of Elinor Dorrance Ingersoll, sold Christie's New York, 11 November 1977, lot 151, and another -fitted with ormolu carrying-handles- now in the Louvre and originally given by Louis XV's wife, Maria Leszcynska to the gouvernante des Enfants de France, Madam Campan, see Guillaume Janneau, Le Mobilier Français: Le Meuble L'Ebénisterie, Paris, 1989, fig. 95. Tables by Péridiez include the abovementioned piece from the Alexander Collection and one with a pierced ormolu gallery in the Huntington Collection. A table of this model, but with different marquetry, stamped by Gosselin is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, see F.J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection, Vol. 1, New York, 1966, pp. 272-273, while another was sold Christie's New York, 4 November 1992, lot 93. It is likely that Delorme was stamping these pieces in his capacity of a marchand and not as an ébéniste.