FURNITURE THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH COMMODE banded overall in tulipwood and kingwood with moulded breakfront grey marble top above two drawers sans traverse later-mounted with a lyre within a panel flanked by putti, with waved apron, between rounded fluted angles headed by ram masks, on cabriole legs and foliate sabots, remounted in the late 19th Century, stamped J. BIRCKLE JME, the marble repaired, one front foot repaired, the other broken

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A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH COMMODE banded overall in tulipwood and kingwood with moulded breakfront grey marble top above two drawers sans traverse later-mounted with a lyre within a panel flanked by putti, with waved apron, between rounded fluted angles headed by ram masks, on cabriole legs and foliate sabots, remounted in the late 19th Century, stamped J. BIRCKLE JME, the marble repaired, one front foot repaired, the other broken
44½in. (113cm.) wide; 34in. (86cm.) high; 21½in. (54.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Jacques Bircklé, maître in 1764

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