Writing table, model by RVLC known as Lacroix, Louis XV period

Rectangular table in rosewood and violetwood veneer, the marquetry top decorated with reserves.
It opens with a drawer fitted with an inkwell and a pull-out writing slide.
Adorned with gilt-bronze mounts of foliated shell motifs on the apron and corner mounts.
The cabriole legs, ending in sabots, are joined by a shaped stretcher shelf and surmounted by a moulded top with gilt-bronze border.

Louis XV period.
H. 73.5 × L. 57 × D. 31 cm

This model can be compared with a table en cabaret preserved at the Musée Nissim de Camondo, in the Salon des Huet.
It can also be related to several fine tables by BVRB, seen at Galerie Segoura, such as a table de salon and a table chiffonnière.

Roger Vandercruse, known as Lacroix (1727–1799)
Received Master on 6 February 1755. Brother-in-law of Jean-François Oeben and Jean-Henri Riesener, Vandercruse was among the great representatives of the Transition style.
He supplied the Duke of Orléans, Madame du Barry, and produced several pieces for the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne through Gilles Joubert.
Many museums today hold his works: Musée Carnavalet, Musée Cognacq-Jay, the Louvre, Musée Nissim de Camondo, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Wallace Collection, and the Getty Museum.