Lot Essay
Amongst the manufacturers of copies of this Riesener model commode, with its flowered trellis and pastoral trophy, was Gervais-Maximilien-Eugen Durand of the rue Beautrellis, who specalised in making replicas of eighteenth century furniture and received a medal at the 1889 Paris Exhibition. At the beginning of this century, Gillow and Company of Oxford Street employed French craftsmen to produce replicas of the 'famous Fontainbleau Commode' (see Gillow advertisement, Connoisseur, July 1905).