AN EMPIRE MAHOGANY AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED COMMODE

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AN EMPIRE MAHOGANY AND ORMOLU-MOUNTED COMMODE

The rectangular fossil grey marble top above three drawers flanked by pilasters with eagle capitals, on block feet, the marble with back right corner lacking, the underside of the marble with printed label CHEMIN DE FER DU NORD ... de la gare de dêpart 247, the feet formerly with caps, losses to veneer, probably German
50¼in. (128cm.) wide; 34¾in. (88cm.) high; 22½in. (57cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The plinth-based commode with Etruscan lion-mask handles is flanked by pilasters with eagle-inhabited capitals derived from C. Percier and P.F.L. Fontaine's Napoleonic schemes in their Receuil de Décorations Intérieures, 1801. A related commode with these pilasters, surmounting lion-paw feet was sold Sotheby's Monaco, 7 December 1983, lot 1817.

A related lion-footed 'commode antique' was illustrated in La Mésangêre's Meubles et Objets de Goût, 1802, pl. 49

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