A Fine Louis XVI Style Parquetry, Gilt-Bronze and Lacquer Mounted Petit Secretaire Cabinet, Attributed to Maison Beurdeley

A Fine Louis XVI Style Parquetry, Gilt-Bronze and Lacquer Mounted Petit Secretaire Cabinet, Attributed to Maison Beurdeley.

Stamped to the reverse of the bronze mounts to the bottom columns 'H.B. 47', stamped to the reverse of the bronze mounts to the top of the columns 'PZ 42'.  Stamped to the reverse of the bronze frames to the doors '38'.

This fine Secrétaire cabinet has a gilt-bronze three quarter gallery inset with a grey marble top above a lambrequin frieze and a parquetry inlaid case, inset with fine Japanese lacquer panels within gilt-bronze borders.  The cabinet has a fall front opening to a writing slope and a fitted interior with small drawers and compartments.

French, Circa 1890.

This cabinet attributed to Beurdeley, reprises a celebrated example with Sèvres porcelain plaques, in place of the lacquer here, which is in the Jones Collection,  bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) by Mr. John Jones after his death in 1882. In the ‘Handbook of the Jones Collection’ published the following year, it is illustrated and described as ‘Marquetrie cabinet with Sèvres plaques inlaid No. 1046’.

Literature:
Handbook of the Jones Collection in the South Kensington Museum: With Portrait and Woodcuts, Published for the Committee of Council on Education by Chapman and Hall, London, 1883, No. 1046. Ill. 39 & p. 60.

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