A matched pair of kingwood, tulipwood, amaranth, bois satiné, stained sycamore and parquetry small writing cabinets, one stamped P. Denizot five times, the other indistinctly stamped possibly P. Denizot, Louis XVI, circa 1780

one with a galleried superstructure with a tambour cupboard, the projecting lower part with a guilloche frieze containing a fitted drawer with swivelling book support and writing surface, with three further drawers below with a herringbone pattern above diapers enclosing flowerheads and a guilloche, the back veneered in a graduated lozenge pattern, the other of the same structure with a tambour inlaid with flowerhead trellis, the projecting lower section with four drawers, the top drawer with a leather-lined reading stand, the second drawer with a leather lined writing slide and gilt-bronze receptacles for inkpot and sander and raised on square tapering legs, the back veneered in tulipwood with strapwork reserves

One:
Jacques Seligmann, Paris
The Collection of Mrs Henry Walters, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 23rd-26th April 1941, lot 699.
The Collection of the late Mrs Landon Kay Thorne, New York

Both can be placed immediately and are in overall very good conserved condition, No. 1: Very minor restorations to the veneer and gilt-bronze gallery which have been very well executed and are hardly noticeable.. No. 2: Very slight warping to the back which is hardly noticeable Very minor chip to the veneer above the handle on the third drawer and by the middle of gilt-bronze border on the top.
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Comparative Literature:
Jean Nicolay, L'Art et la manière des maîtres ébénistes français, Paris, Vol. I, 1976, for a sécretaire by Denizot with identical trellis parquetry enclosing flowerheads as on one of the offered writing cabinets.

Geometric parquetry was often used by Denizot to decorate his pieces, particularly his commodes à la Grecque. A parquetry commode stamped P. Denizot with identical guilloche and trelliswork enclosing flowerheads as on the frieze and drawers of one of these writing cabinets, together with the marquetry on the sides of both, was delivered to the Comtesse de Provenace at Versailles in 1771 and sold Sotheby's, Paris, 28th April 2009, lot 80.

Pierre Denizot was the son of the cabinetmaker Jacques Denizot, Pierre Denizot became master cabinetmaker in 1740. However, presumably because he worked in his father's atelier, he did not sign his pieces until 1760 when he began working in his own studio on the rue Neuve-Saint-Roche. He soon became a recognized craftsman in his own right and eventually supplied numerous pieces to the comte d'Artois for his apartments at the Palais du Temple, at Bagatelle and château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye. In addition, he worked for the duc d'Angôuleme and the comte de Provence.
Many of his works were conceived in the new goût grec style of the 1760s that were retailed by the ébéniste Leonard Boudin, whose stamp sometimes can also be found on Denizot's furniture.