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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH AND BOIS SATINÉ PARQUETRY AND MARQUETRY COMMODE À VANTAUX
LATE 19TH CENTURY
With canted rectangular carrara marble top above a breakfront frieze fitted with a central panelled beaded drawer mounted with alternating pendant husks above a similarly panelled cupboard door centrally mounted with a ribbon tied circular medallion inlaid with a musical trophy against a trellis parquetry ground and flanked by similarly mounted and inlaid panels, the sides similarly fitted, the canted angles headed by paterae above foliate chutes, the apron with a pierced foliate scrolling mount, on toupie feet headed by ormolu collars, bearing the stamp J.H. Riesener JME--40½in (103cm.) high, 67in. (170cm.) wide, 25¾in. (655cm.) deep
PROVENANCE
Comte de Chastellux
Mrs. Henry Walters, Baltimore, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1-3 May 1941, lot 1419
J. Paul Getty, Sutton Place, Hampshire
When the commode was sold in The Walters sale, it was thought to be bvy Riesener. It appears to be a pastiche of several Riesener pieces, notably a commode in The Frick Collection illustrated in A. Pradère Les Ébenistes Français du Louis XIV à la Revlution, 1989, p. 376, fig. 454 and two secretaires à abattant made for Marié-Antoinette for the Grand Trianon and Versilles in 1783 and now in The Wallace Collection (F.J.B. Watson, Catalogue, 1956, nos. 302, 303, pls. 88 and 89).
LATE 19TH CENTURY
With canted rectangular carrara marble top above a breakfront frieze fitted with a central panelled beaded drawer mounted with alternating pendant husks above a similarly panelled cupboard door centrally mounted with a ribbon tied circular medallion inlaid with a musical trophy against a trellis parquetry ground and flanked by similarly mounted and inlaid panels, the sides similarly fitted, the canted angles headed by paterae above foliate chutes, the apron with a pierced foliate scrolling mount, on toupie feet headed by ormolu collars, bearing the stamp J.H. Riesener JME--40½in (103cm.) high, 67in. (170cm.) wide, 25¾in. (655cm.) deep
PROVENANCE
Comte de Chastellux
Mrs. Henry Walters, Baltimore, sold Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1-3 May 1941, lot 1419
J. Paul Getty, Sutton Place, Hampshire
When the commode was sold in The Walters sale, it was thought to be bvy Riesener. It appears to be a pastiche of several Riesener pieces, notably a commode in The Frick Collection illustrated in A. Pradère Les Ébenistes Français du Louis XIV à la Revlution, 1989, p. 376, fig. 454 and two secretaires à abattant made for Marié-Antoinette for the Grand Trianon and Versilles in 1783 and now in The Wallace Collection (F.J.B. Watson, Catalogue, 1956, nos. 302, 303, pls. 88 and 89).