Secretary Louis XV Period – 18th, Lardin Stamp

SECRETARY LOUIS a reserve of flowers including carnations forming scrolls and two leaves animated by the same scene. The interior reveals six small drawers and two small lockers. Red leather flap top surrounded by a golden frieze. Each side also presents a rich floral decoration, Ornamentation of gilded bronzes or scraps of piastres friezes, Locks decorated with a garland of laurel flowers tied with a ribbon. The whole rests on arched legs with small rolling hooves. The top is topped with Aleppo breccia marble. Stamped: Lardin André-Antoine Lardin (1724 - August 10, 1790) - cabinetmaker. Paris. Master on July 1, 1750. He had the specialty of rosewood veneer of exceptional quality. His life: André-Antoine Lardin, obtained his master's degree in 1750 and moved to rue de Charenton at the sign "au Bois de Boulogne". He worked there until 1770, when he moved to rue Saint Nicolas. . Its production is considerable. His furniture of all styles (Louis XIV, Régence, Louis XV, Transition, Louis XVI) is very beautifully made, with classic shapes and decorations. Alongside the secretaries, desks, tables, chiffoniers..., he left an impressive number of chests of drawers, decorated with rosewood or violet wood veneer of exceptional quality and inlaid with leaves or butterfly wings with dark rosewood frame. Lardin's characteristic was his stamp affixed in very large letters, energetically, on several places of the same piece of furniture. His two sons, André-Antoine II and Louis François collaborated with him and it was Louis François who succeeded him on rue Saint Nicolas.