Lot 101
101
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT AND PARQUETRY COMMODE, after the model by Antoine Gaudreaux, with a serpentine Carrara marble top, above a pair of panel doors, each centred by an oval, one raised with a lion and bacchante, the other with a goat and cherub, within a ribbon-tied foliate-scrolled border with foliate pendants and portrait medallions, the central upright cast with a female mask above shelves, the side panels similarly decorated, the interior with four drawers, with shaped ribbon-tied and foliate-cast apron, on four rams' mask legs with scrolled feet,late 19th/20th Century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT AND PARQUETRY COMMODE, after the model by Antoine Gaudreaux, with a serpentine Carrara marble top, above a pair of panel doors, each centred by an oval, one raised with a lion and bacchante, the other with a goat and cherub, within a ribbon-tied foliate-scrolled border with foliate pendants and portrait medallions, the central upright cast with a female mask above shelves, the side panels similarly decorated, the interior with four drawers, with shaped ribbon-tied and foliate-cast apron, on four rams' mask legs with scrolled feet,late 19th/20th Century
72in. (183cm.) wide; 38¾in. (98.5cm.) high; 25in. (63.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The serpentined commode hung with medals and flower-festooned medaillons of a bacchante and youth on a bacchic panther and goat derives from the celebrated commode designed for Louis XV's apartment at Versailles by Antoine-Sebastian Slodtz and manufactured by Antoine Gaudreaux in 1739.
A Napoleon III version, sold Sotheby's, London, 12th June, 1987, lot 663 was signed by Hippolyte-Edme Pretot (d. 1855) and dated 1847.

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