A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY BONHEUR DU JOUR, BY PIERRE ROUSSEL, CIRCA 1770

A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY BONHEUR DU JOUR
BY PIERRE ROUSSEL, CIRCA 1770
With three quarter gallery above a landscape scene of a village beside a river over three drawers inlaid with a transverse marquetry townscape, the reverse with confirming marquetry, the top with a further view of town beside a bridge, above a guilloche-mounted frieze fitted with a drawer openiing to a bookrest and out-folding compartments inlaid with urns, on cabriole legs joined by a medial shelf with trompe l'oeil marquetry, paw sabots, stamped P ROUSSEL to underside
36 ¾ in. (93.5 cm.) high, 27 ½ in. (70 cm.) wide, 18 ¼ in. (46.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Lord Foley at Ruxley Lodge, Claygate, Surrey, England; Castiglione & Scott, 14-20 October 1919, lot 231.
Joseph C. Widener.
John L. Severance
Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
Parke Bernet, New York, 10 December 1966, lot 137.
John Dorrance; Sotheby’s, New York, 20-21 October 1989, lot 813.