Antique Louis XV Ormolu Marquetry Bonheur Du Jour Desk Roger Vandercruse 1780 Sold surrounded by flowers & foliate

surrounded by flowers & foliate and interspersed with birds & butterflies

In 1871 he started to show his works

once screen showing a peasant in a leafy setting

to the center is the rete and rule

Signed and annotated “epreuve d’artiste” in pencil

Antique Louis XV Ormolu Marquetry Bonheur Du Jour Desk Roger Vandercruse 1780 Sold surrounded by flowers & foliateAntique French Louis XV transitional ormolu mounted tulipwood & marquetry Bonheur Du Jour, Roger Vandercruse (dit Lacroix) , circa 1770. The desk is finely inlaid on all sides, therefore the desk can 'float' in the middle of a room. The top having a pierced ormolu gallery, below are two drawers and two cupboard doors, with marquetry inlay of Chinese vessels to the drawers and wine glasses and decanters to the doors. The top sides of the desk are