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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, BOIS SATINE, WALNUT, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY COMMODE A VANTAUX

OF LOUIS XVI STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD, BOIS SATINE, WALNUT, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY COMMODE A VANTAUX
OF LOUIS XVI STYLE, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The breakfront Bardiglio fiorito marble top above a guilloche and acanthus-cast frieze with three drawers, above a cupboard door centred by an oval reserve inlaid with a ribbon-tied flower-filled basket, enclosing a single shelf, flanked to each side by a sunflower-inset trellis parquetry door, the angles headed by entrelac-cast clasps, the sides conforming-inlaid, on short hipped legs with scrolled sabots, bearing the spurious stamp 'LELEU' and 'JME'
44 ½ in. (113 cm.) high; 60 ¼ in. (153 cm.) wide; 26 ¼ in. (66.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The present commode à vantaux is undoubtedly inspired by a commode similarly inlaid with a ribbon-tied basket of flowers flanked by trellis parquetry supplied by Jean-François Leleu (d. 1807) in 1772 to Louis Joseph de Bourbon, Prince de Condé (d. 1818). The commode was commissioned for the Prince’s bedroom at the Palais Bourbon and is currently in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris, (OA 9589).

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