A French ormolu-mounted mahogany Commode a Vantaux

LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A French ormolu-mounted mahogany Commode a Vantaux
Late 19th/early 20th Century
With a breccia marble top with eared corners, above three frieze drawers, the central one with a lion mask, with a pair of doors below, centred by a roundel within foliate scrolls, the interior fitted with six drawers, the sides each with a roundel cast in high-relief within foliate scrolls, the corners each with a three-quarter fluted circular upright headed by acanthus, on toupie feet and foliate sabots
69¾in. (177cm.) wide; 37¾in. (96cm.) high; 25½in. (65cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The prototype for this commode, now in the Louvre, was originally provided for Louis XVI's Garde-Meuble in 1786 for use in Queen Marie-Antoinette's apartment at Fontainbleau (see F. J. B. Watson, Louis XVI Furniture, London, 1960, fig. 45).

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