A REGENCY ROSEWOOD BONHEUR DU JOUR, English, circa 1810
Height: 44 ¼ in; 112.5 cm
Width: 32 in; 81.5 cm
Depth: 19 in; 48.5 cm
Width: 32 in; 81.5 cm
Depth: 19 in; 48.5 cm
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£50,000 - £100,000
An extremely rare and superb quality ormolu mounted rosewood bonheur du jour attributable to John McLean. The lift-off tops fitted with two drawers with egg and dart beading with pierced...
An extremely rare and superb quality ormolu mounted rosewood bonheur du jour attributable to John McLean. The lift-off tops fitted with two drawers with egg and dart beading with pierced panels of gilt brass and a galleried shelf above. The bases having ormolu banding and a long single drawer in the frieze; on circular tapering gilt brass capped legs terminating in brass castors.
Note: A single bonheur by McLean can be found in the well-documented collection of Jon Gerstenfeld, Washington DC.
Literature
Margaret Jourdain, Regency Furniture 1795-1820,1949, p.78m fig.182; a similar single example by the same maker.
Edward Lennow-Boyd (ed.), Masterpieces of English Furniture; The Gerstenfeld Collection, 1998, p. 46, pl. 53.
