BY MAISON JANSEN, 20TH CENTURY

Details

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED GREEN AND POLYCHROME-PAINTED VERNIS MARTIN COMMODE
BY MAISON JANSEN, 20TH CENTURY
With veined red marble top above two drawers, decorated overall with a flower-filled trellis
32 in. (81.5 cm.) high, 44 ½ in. (113 cm.) wide, 20 ¼ in. (51.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Supplied by Maison Jansen circa 1962 to Mr. Charles Wrightsman.
Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, Palm Beach; Sotheby's, New York, 5 May 1984, lot 207.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This commode is based on an almost identical eighteenth-century example attributed to Jacques Dubois, currently in a private collection, see A. Forray-Carlier and M. Kopplin, Les Secrets de la Laque Française, Paris, 2014, exh. cat. p. 219, cat. 170.

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