Lot Essay
Charles Cressent, active circa 1719 to 1768.
The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.
This commode relates to a specific group attributed to Charles Cressent. Certain features place this commode amongst the later works of the ébéniste: the typical Louis XV angle mounts further feature on a commode in a private collection, Paris, a commode from the collection of Mrs. Charles B. Wrightsman and originally in the collection of the 4th Marquess of Hertford, sold at Sotheby's New York, 14 October 1988, lot 59 and a commode in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (O. Brackett, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, London, 1922, pl. 8, fig. 16, no. 119-1881).
This attribution is confirmed by the description of similar commodes which feature in sale by Cressent
Thus in his first sale on 15 January 1749,
no. 13, une commode de bois de violette, garnie de ses bronzes, dorée d'or moulu, deux portes sur les côtés, d'un contour extraordinaire, son marbre de brèche d'Alep.
while his second sale of 1 February 1756 mentions
no. 120, 121, 122, trois commodes à la Harant, les ornemens de bronzes dorés d'or moulu; de quatre pieds six pouces de long a porte sur les côtes.
The substantial donation by Monsieur and Madame Grog to the Louvre in 1974 included French furniture and works of art, old master pictures and Chinese ceramics. P. Verlet extensively discusses several pieces of furniture in 'La Donation Grog-Carver', La Revue du Louvre et des Musés de France, 1974. vol. 2, pp. 120-131.
The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.
This commode relates to a specific group attributed to Charles Cressent. Certain features place this commode amongst the later works of the ébéniste: the typical Louis XV angle mounts further feature on a commode in a private collection, Paris, a commode from the collection of Mrs. Charles B. Wrightsman and originally in the collection of the 4th Marquess of Hertford, sold at Sotheby's New York, 14 October 1988, lot 59 and a commode in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (O. Brackett, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, London, 1922, pl. 8, fig. 16, no. 119-1881).
This attribution is confirmed by the description of similar commodes which feature in sale by Cressent
Thus in his first sale on 15 January 1749,
no. 13, une commode de bois de violette, garnie de ses bronzes, dorée d'or moulu, deux portes sur les côtés, d'un contour extraordinaire, son marbre de brèche d'Alep.
while his second sale of 1 February 1756 mentions
no. 120, 121, 122, trois commodes à la Harant, les ornemens de bronzes dorés d'or moulu; de quatre pieds six pouces de long a porte sur les côtes.
The substantial donation by Monsieur and Madame Grog to the Louvre in 1974 included French furniture and works of art, old master pictures and Chinese ceramics. P. Verlet extensively discusses several pieces of furniture in 'La Donation Grog-Carver', La Revue du Louvre et des Musés de France, 1974. vol. 2, pp. 120-131.