A NEAR PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND JASPERWARE-MOUNTED COMMODES AUX VANTAUX

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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE BERNARD CASTRO, REMOVED FROM HISTORIC PANFIELD, LONG ISLAND (LOTS 1-23)

A NEAR PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND JASPERWARE-MOUNTED COMMODES AUX VANTAUX

AFTER THE MODEL BY JOSEPH STOCKEL AND GUILLAUME BENNEMAN, ONE COMMODE BY LEON KAHN, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A NEAR PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU AND JASPERWARE-MOUNTED COMMODES AUX VANTAUX
AFTER THE MODEL BY JOSEPH STOCKEL AND GUILLAUME BENNEMAN, ONE COMMODE BY LEON KAHN, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Each with shaped grey-veined white marble top above three frieze drawers and a pair of cupboard doors centered with a circular jasperware plaque, one opening to a converted interior and the other to two banks of three drawers, the sides mounted with Sèvres style floral plaques, raised on toupie feet, the reverse of the mounts on one commode variously signed L. KAHN, the top of one inscribed in blue chalk twice 1159 and black stencil to the underside of the right frieze drawer 18565, and the other with label typed and inscribed MADISON ART GALLERIES, INC. 25 WEST 45TH ST. NEW YORK CITY Mrs. Maxine Sanson Miami Beach
40 in. (101.5 cm.) high, 72¾ in. (185 cm.) wide, 25¾ in. (65.5 cm.) deep, one with drawers; 38¼ in. (97 cm.) high, 70¼ in. (178.5 cm.) wide, 26 in. (67 cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Madison Art Galleries, New York;
The Bayfront Mansion of Stanton D. Sansons, Lester Hart Associates, Miami, Florida, 31 March 1958;
The Collection of the Late Bernard Castro;
Thence by descent to present owner.

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Lot Essay

The design of the present commodes relates closely to that of a pair adapted by Guillaume Benneman from a model by Joseph Stöckel supplied to Marie-Antoinette in 1786 for the Salon des jeux at Château Fontainebleau. The popular model was widely copied in varying degrees of quality throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries. One commode, illustrated right, exhibits the quality craftsmanship of Léon Kahn whose oeuvre was heavily influenced by the 18th century ébénistes, including Weisweiler, Cressent and Gaudreaux.

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