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Lot Essay
Lénoard Boudin, maître in 1761.
Although one of these tables is almost certainly stamped by Lénoard Boudin, they are both possibly a collaboration between another cabinet-maker and Boudin, acting as a marchand-ébéniste. The distinctive marquetry of vases and utensils inspired by Chinese coromandel lacquer screens, is closely associated with the work of the ébéniste Charles Topino (maître in 1773), who worked frequently with Boudin. Between 1772 and 1774 Topino supplied 49 small occasional tables to the marchand, almost all decorated with sujets chinois. Several tables are known which bear both makers' stamps, including a bonheur-du-jour in the Nationalsmuseum, Stockholm and a table in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (S. Barbier Sainte Marie, 'Charles Topino, maître ébéniste et entrepreneur fécond', <->Estampille/L'Objet d'Art, October 1999, pp. 38 - 39).
Topino also supplied other cabinet-makers and marchands such as Boudin with individual marquetry panels, as well as finished cabinet pieces, and it is possible that this may be the case with the present table en chiffonnière.
A closely related table of the same model stamped by Boudin and also with an undertier is illustrated in P. Kjellberg (Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1998, p. 98) while another very similar table stamped by Topino is illustrated in N. de Reyniès, Le Mobilier Domestique, Paris, 1987, p. 350, ill. 1250. A closely related table without undertier and also stamped by Boudin from the collection of Dr. Anton C.R. Dreesmann,was sold Christie's, London, 10 April 2002, lot 270.
Although one of these tables is almost certainly stamped by Lénoard Boudin, they are both possibly a collaboration between another cabinet-maker and Boudin, acting as a marchand-ébéniste. The distinctive marquetry of vases and utensils inspired by Chinese coromandel lacquer screens, is closely associated with the work of the ébéniste Charles Topino (maître in 1773), who worked frequently with Boudin. Between 1772 and 1774 Topino supplied 49 small occasional tables to the marchand, almost all decorated with sujets chinois. Several tables are known which bear both makers' stamps, including a bonheur-du-jour in the Nationalsmuseum, Stockholm and a table in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (S. Barbier Sainte Marie, 'Charles Topino, maître ébéniste et entrepreneur fécond', <->Estampille/L'Objet d'Art, October 1999, pp. 38 - 39).
Topino also supplied other cabinet-makers and marchands such as Boudin with individual marquetry panels, as well as finished cabinet pieces, and it is possible that this may be the case with the present table en chiffonnière.
A closely related table of the same model stamped by Boudin and also with an undertier is illustrated in P. Kjellberg (Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1998, p. 98) while another very similar table stamped by Topino is illustrated in N. de Reyniès, Le Mobilier Domestique, Paris, 1987, p. 350, ill. 1250. A closely related table without undertier and also stamped by Boudin from the collection of Dr. Anton C.R. Dreesmann,was sold Christie's, London, 10 April 2002, lot 270.