A LOUIS XV BLACK LACQUER AND GILT CHINOISERIE DECORATED SECRETAIRE A ABATTANT BY LEONARD BOUDIN, CIRCA 1770 Ormolu mounted throughout, with variegated grey marble top, the fall opening to an arrangement to shelves and small drawers above a tooled leather inset writing surface, beneath the marble stamped 'JME' and 'L. BOUDIN'147.5cm high, 93cm wide, 37cm deep For a remarkably similar secretaire a abattant, see Sotheby's, Monaco, Bel Ameublement, 23rd February 1986, Lot 865 (FF 444,000).A closely related example of secretaire a abattant is currently held by the Nation Trust at Polesden Lacey, Surrey (NT 1245864). For a lacquered secretaire a abattant stamped 'L. BOUDIN' see, Koller, Zurich, Furniture & Sculptures, 27th September 2018, Lot 1060 (CHF 78,500). For a commode by Leonard Boudin incorporating remarkably similar black lacquer, gilt decoration and ormolu mounts see, Christie's, London, The Collector: European Furniture, Works of Art & Ceramics, 23rd May 2018, Lot 225 (£62,500).