Described in a 1777 Parisian newspaper as "one of the most highly recommended [cabinetmakers] for furniture of tortoiseshell, silver, ebony, or brass of the type made by the celebrated Boulle," Philippe-Claude Montigny specialized in copying and restoring the furniture of the famous seventeenth-century craftsman André-Charles Boulle. The son of an *ébéniste,* Montigny was accepted by the guild as
