88. Henry DASSON Mahogany and mahogany veneer bonheur-du-jour, the tier opening with two leaves made of exotic wood panels decorated in hiramaki-e and takamaki-e lacquer with cranes among the waves near the shore. In the belt, a secret drawer is operated by a concealed pusher. Fluted piriform base with copper inlays joined by an X-shaped brace, finished with tapered and fluted legs. Ornamentation in chased and gilded bronze such as capitals, moldings, molding, frieze of grapes and garden attributes, rings and hooves. Marble top of brocatelle of Spain embedded with gallery. Stamped DASSON, 1878. Louis XVI style, late 19th century. Japan, Meiji period (1868-1912) for the lacquered panels. (A detached fluted pilaster will be given to the buyer. A copper rod from an earlier foot A copper rod from an earlier foot partially lifted. Crack). H : 110 cm - W : 58,5 cm - D : 35 cm. The bonheur-du-jour that we present is the one reproduced in Les ébénistes du XIXe siècle 1795-1889 Denise Ledoux-Lebard, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2003, page 150 ; as well as L'Ameublement d'art français 1850-1900, Camille Mestdagh, Les éditions de l'Amateur, Paris, 2010, page 236 (fig. 277). Very influenced by the decorative arts of the French eighteenth century, Dasson is inspired here by a Bonheur-du-jour model made by Weisweiler, probably after drawings by the merchant Daguerre. The swollen base and the spacer are a simplification of the designs of English furniture of the last quarter of the 18th century. The auction of furniture and bronzes of the house Dasson & Cie in 1894 shows the interest that Henry Dasson gave to lacquer panels from Japan and China. The sale catalog presents nearly eighty lots of Japanese lacquer objects of all kinds. Some desks of an identical model were presented in auctions, among which : - A secretaire auctioned in New York (Sotheby's, April 25, 2012, lot 154). - A secretaire sold in New York (Christie's, November 26, 2013, lot 153).