58. 58W Bonheur-du-jour Louis XVI en bois citronnier, amarante et filets d'ébène, ornementation de bronze doré, vers 1780, dans le goût de Claude Charles Saunier A Louis XVI ormolu-mounted bois citronnier, amaranth and ebony banded bonheur-du-jour, circa 1780, in the manner of Claude Charles Saunier The three-quarter galleried white marble top, above two doors centred with oval cameos depicting Antique scenes, revealing a banded and veneered interior, and flanked by gilt-metal brettés panels, the roll-top enclosing three small drawers, one of them with an inkwell compartment, two pigeon holes and further simulated drawers conformingly veneered, the red leather sliding writing surface above a knee-hole with two small drawers, the right one fitted with a hinged strong box with locking device, and a central thin drawer, the panelled sides with red leather lined slides, the back panelled and veneered conformingly, on turned tapering channelled legs headed by brettés, apparently unstamped,82cm wide x 44.5cm deep x 123.5cm high, (32in wide x 17 1/2in deep x 48 1/2in high) This elegant and small bureau de dame, often called bonheur-du-jour is closely related to a distinctive group of furniture produced by leading Parisian ébénistes as Claude-Charles Saunier and Ferdinand Bury. The wide use of bois citronnier and contrasting amaranth banding is a characteristic often favoured by Saunier. These small bureaux were often embellished with Sèvres porcelain plaques or, as in this case, painted biscuit porcelain cameos.