A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY COMMODE by Jacques-Laurent Cosson, the moulded, eared breakfront rectangular black and white marble top above an entrelac and rosette panelled frieze with three drawers, above two long drawers inlaid sans traverse with trelliswork parquetry within oyster-cut fruitwood borders, the rounded angles mounted with laurel-swagged Vitruvian-scroll and chandelle-mounts, the sides similarly inlaid with trelliswork parquetry, above a foliate and guttae-mounted shaped apron and on husk-trailed cabriole legs and scroll feet, stamped J.L. COSSON JME

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A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY COMMODE by Jacques-Laurent Cosson, the moulded, eared breakfront rectangular black and white marble top above an entrelac and rosette panelled frieze with three drawers, above two long drawers inlaid sans traverse with trelliswork parquetry within oyster-cut fruitwood borders, the rounded angles mounted with laurel-swagged Vitruvian-scroll and chandelle-mounts, the sides similarly inlaid with trelliswork parquetry, above a foliate and guttae-mounted shaped apron and on husk-trailed cabriole legs and scroll feet, stamped J.L. COSSON JME
50½in. (129cm.) wide; 29¼in. (89.5cm.) high; 24in. (61cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Jacques Laurent Cosson, maître in 1765.

The 'Grecian' laurel-swagged triglyph angle-mounts appear on commodes by Mathien-Guillaume Cramer (cf. the pair of commodes by Cramer from the Estate of Ethel Shields Garrett, Christie's, New York, 5 November 1986, lot 202, and a further commode from the Collection of the 5th Early of Rosebery, Montrose Towers, Buckinghamshire, sold in these Rooms, 4 May 1939, lot 100)

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