A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY COMMODE

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY COMMODE
In the Louis XVI style, after the model by Riesener

With a shaped grey/brown marble top, above a frieze drawer, the panel below with two doors, each inlaid with flower trellis and centred with an 'altar'-panel displaying a festive pastoral-trophy, comprising ewer, vase and hoe-supported basket festooned with fruit and flowers, the shaped sides also with flower-trellis, with canted angles, each headed by a rosette with acanthus mount and foliate sabot
64½in. (164cm.) wide; 36¾in. (93.5cm.) high; 23½in. (59.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This commode's protype, with reversed trophy, was supplied in the late 1770s by J. H. Riesener (maitre ebeniste 1768). One delivered to Versailles in 1776 was later sold from the collection of the 12th Duke of Hamilton's sale in these Rooms, 17 June 1882, lot 528.

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