A LARGE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE, in the Louis XVI style, by Paul Sormani, with a shaped bréche violette marble top, above a panelled frieze with Vitruvian scroll and fitted with three drawers, above a central cupboard door, with quarter-veneered panel and two fruit-filled baskets on scrolled acanthus mounts, within rectangular leaf-cast frames with laurel rosettes to each corner,the lock plate signed P. SORMANI 10 r. Charlot Paris, flanked to each side by a cupboard door with quarter-veneered panel within a beaded frame, the curved sides similarly decorated, between canted angles, each with a fluted volute bracket with central guilloche-filled channel and ribbon-tied foliate festoon with acanthus terminal, on four toupie feet

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A LARGE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE, in the Louis XVI style, by Paul Sormani, with a shaped bréche violette marble top, above a panelled frieze with Vitruvian scroll and fitted with three drawers, above a central cupboard door, with quarter-veneered panel and two fruit-filled baskets on scrolled acanthus mounts, within rectangular leaf-cast frames with laurel rosettes to each corner,the lock plate signed P. SORMANI 10 r. Charlot Paris, flanked to each side by a cupboard door with quarter-veneered panel within a beaded frame, the curved sides similarly decorated, between canted angles, each with a fluted volute bracket with central guilloche-filled channel and ribbon-tied foliate festoon with acanthus terminal, on four toupie feet

75¾in. (192.5cm.) wide; 40in. (101.5cm) high; 27¼in. (69.2cm)

拍品专文

The two-drawered commodes supplied in 1786 by J. H. Riesener (d. 1806) for the Versailles appartments designed by the architect R. Mique for Marie Antoinette, provided the prototype for this Louis XVI style commode (see P. Verlet, Le Mobilier Royal Français, Paris, 1990, no. 14).
Paul Sormani (d. 1877) who moved his workshops to the rue Charlot in 1867, had exhibited at the various International Exhibitions held in Paris and London during the middle of the 19th century.