A Louis XVI ormolu-mounted tulipwood and fruitwood bonheur-du-jour

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A Louis XVI ormolu-mounted tulipwood and fruitwood bonheur-du-jour

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PeriodBy Jacques-Laurent Cosson (1737-1812), last quarter 18th centuryDescriptionThe rectangular top with pierced three-quarter gallery surround, above a tambour shutter, enclosing a fitted interior with seven compartments above three drawers, the frieze drawer with hinged fall front and gilt-tooled red leather-lined interior, on square tapering legs joined by a rectangular undertier, stamped to the underside J. L COSSON.Dimensions110x83x49 cmLiteratureProvenance:
Acquired by the parents of the present owners in the 1970s, thence by descent.

The long career of the Parisian furniture maker Jacques-Laurent Cosson (1737-1812) witnessed a change in his style from Louis XV to Transition (an oval rosewood table in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris) and finally to Louis XVI as in the present bonheur-du-jour (see also a rosewood and violet wood secrétaire in the Musée du Louvre, Paris). Cosson produced a broad range of furniture, such as commodes, bureaux plats, bureaux à cylindre, tables de salon, secretaires and encoignures, sometimes using plaques of Sèvres porcelain or ivory as inlay material. He became a maître ébéniste in September 1765, and in 1784 he was appointed conseiller de la société des Menuisiers-Ebénistes. Cosson had an atelier in the Rue de Charonne in Paris, working for colleagues like Pierre Migeon et Louis Moreau (maître in 1791). In May 1780, Cosson married Marie-Nicole Mansion (d. 1782), daughter of Claude Mansion. Their son Jean-François was presumably the ébéniste who worked at Faubourg-Saint-Antoine between 1822 and 1830.