The marquetry top depicting a still life with bud vases and a quill enclosed by pierced brass gallery, the drum-form body further decorated with variations on the same marquetry scene and enclosing three small drawers, cabriole legs headed by foliate and C-scrolled ormolu mounts, connected by round stretcher shelf and ending in sabots, stamped 'L. BOUDIN' and 'JME' to interior of one drawer
30¹⁄₂ in. (77.5 cm.) high, 14¹⁄₈ in. (35.9 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

Léonard Boudin, maître in 1761.

Léonard Boudin was particularly renowned for the quality of his masterful inlay, a skill he learned while apprenticed to the ébéniste, Pierre II Migeon (d. 1758). In 1772, he began retailing furniture from premises on the rue Fromenteau, five years later he moved to the cloister of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois. As a marchand-ébéniste, or hybrid furniture-maker and dealer, Boudin could stamp both newly executed commissions as well as older furniture that he would resell, and his stamp is often found alongside that of RVLC, Evald, Denizot and Gilbert, indicating that Boudin retailed these pieces on behalf of these ébénistes. Boudin worked not only with marquetry and parquetry veneers, but also with Chinese lacquer and japanned panels imitating Chinese lacquer.