Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour), ca. 1774, French, Paris and Sèvres, Oak veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, and stained

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Small writing desk (bonheur-du-jour), ca. 1774, French, Paris and Sèvres, Oak veneered with tulipwood, amaranth, and stained sycamore; mahogany; seventeen soft-paste porcelain plaques; gilt-bronze mounts; velvet (not original), Overall: 32 1/2 × 25 7/8 × 16 in. ( × × cm), Woodwork-Furniture, The 1795 inventory of furniture belonging to Louis XVI's sister-in-law, Marie-Thérèse of Savoy, comtesse d'Artois (1756–1805), gives a description of a similar desk, or bonheur du jour, which may refer to this piece

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