Bon Durand (estp), "bureau Plat", Louis XV Period, Eighteenth

FLAT middle desk in rosewood veneer and violet wood, it opens with three drawers belt, three drawers simulated on the other side. Golden bronze trim such as clogs, spandrels and pull handles. The tray is trimmed with a golden red leather to the small curved iron of a gilded bronze mold. Good DURAND says "DURAND the young", received with the mastery in 1761. XVIIIth century, JME. H. 74.5, L. 128, P. 68 cm. Bon Durand establishes his workshop rue de Charenton where he worked from obtaining his master's degree, in 1761, until the Revolution. His main clients were cabinet-makers such as Pierre Migeon and Denis Genty and upholsterers like Presle and Bonnemain. We find his stamp on many pieces of furniture, Louis XV, Transition and Louis XVI, dressers, secretaries, flat desks, libraries ... often mahogany, veneers of rosewood or violet very cleverly decorated and flower marquetry. MUSEUM Dresser with two drawers without cross, stamped Bon DURAND. Inlaid with colored wood flowers on rosewood fonf; frames of amaranth wood. Curved on three sides, she poses on legs arched in veneer in amaranth wood. The bronzes, gilded with varnish, include two falls, two lock entries, four pull handles, an apron, foliated hooves and nets protecting the edges of the feet. - N ° MAD2670 - Museum of Decorative Arts - Lyon BIBLIOGRAPHY The French Furniture of the XVIIIth Century - Pierre Kjellberg - The Editions of the Amateur - 2008 The cabinetmakers of the 18th century - Count François de Salverte - Editions of Art and History - 1934