A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE

STAMPED TWICE P.MIGEON JME AND ONCE MIGEON, CIRCA 1755

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE
Stamped twice P.MIGEON JME and once MIGEON, Circa 1755
The shaped white-veined liver marble top above a frieze drawer fitted with a gilt-tooled red leather-inset adjustable reading-stand flanked by large stationary wells fitted with sliding half-veneered lids, the sides of the drawer veneered, above two drawers and a shaped apron centered by a pierced and scrolled acanthus-sheathed rocaille cartouche, the angles set with scrolled rocaille mounts, the sides quarter-veneered, on cabriole legs with scrolled rocaille sabots
31¼in. (79.5cm.) high, 51½in. (131cm.) wide, 25¼in. (64cm.) deep
Provenance
Acquired from Maurice Segoura, Paris.

Lot Essay

Pierre II Migeon, maître in 1739.

The commode en secretaire was an unusual form in the Louis XV period, but is not without precedent, as is seen by the commode of this form with richer mounts and trellis-parquetry decoration, sold from an anonymous Private Collection at Christie's Monaco, 5 December 1992, lot 62 (1,776,000 FrF).

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