French Louis XVI Bonheur du jour

MATHIEU GUILLAUME CRAMER, attributed to
(Master in Paris, 1771-1794)

Bonheur du jour
Louis XVI period
Paris, circa 1780

Inlaid maple with green-tinted sycamore,
holly, boxwood, ebony, rosewood and amaranth veneer, chased and gilded bronze, pink silk velvet
With inkwell, pen box and powder box
H. 100 cm, W. 67 cm, D. 42 cm
Former label of Garde Meuble Public Bedel & Cie,
18 rue Saint Augustin, Inventory N° 28537
History
Former Madame de Polès collection, sale in Paris,
Galerie Georges Petit, June 22-24, 1927, no. 294, reproduced pl. CXXV (fig. 1)
Former Germain Seligman collection
Bibliography
Guillaume Jeannot, Les Petits meubles, described p. 33,
reproduced pl. XXXVI, no. 36B (fig. 2)