BONHEUR DU JOUR à ressaut central en placage d'ébène, de loupe de thuya et

BONHEUR DU JOUR with a central projection in ebony veneer, burr cedar and porcelain plates. The central body of the upper part is decorated with a large rectangular porcelain plate with a gallant scene in the taste of the 18th century and the interior is entirely veneered with burr cedar. On each side a compartment entirely veneered with burr cedar and glazed on two sides. These three compartments are framed at the top and bottom by rectangular porcelain plates with gallant scenes.
The lower part also has a slight central projection and is decorated on the belt with three rectangular porcelain plaques with gallant scenes, two of which are signed Thuillier. The bottom is mirrored as well as the spacer shelf. The fluted legs are finished by feet toupies. Second half of the 19th century, around 1880.
Height : 155 cm - Width : 100 cm Depth : 49 cm
Charles Thuillier is a painter on porcelain active in Limoges between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
From the middle of the 18th century, the Mercier merchants bought porcelain plates from the Sèvres factory to decorate furniture which became the most prestigious pieces of furniture of the last two decades.
This type of decoration continued in the nineteenth century and increased in the second half of the nineteenth century, the Empress Eugenie nostalgic for the reign of Marie-Antoinette is no stranger to the multiplication of furniture on which the porcelain plates complement the marquetry in the taste of the eighteenth century.