Lot Essay
André-Louis Gilbert, maître in 1774
Antoine Gosselin, maître in 1752
A closely related commode by Roger Vandercruse (RVLC) is in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, and illustrated in N. Gasc, The Nissim de Camondo Museum, Paris, 1991, p. 30. It further relates closely with a pair of commodes by Martin-Guillaume Cramer from the estate of Ethel Shields Garrett, sold Christie's New York, 5 November 1986, lot 202, and a further commode by Cramer in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, illustrated in op.cit., p. 22.
It is interesting to note that the marble top was described as being pink in the 1931 sale, which does indicate that it was probably replaced thereafter. The mounts, however, appear to be the same as illustrated in the sale catalogue of 1931 and seem thus to have been replaced at an earlier period.
Antoine Gosselin, maître in 1752
A closely related commode by Roger Vandercruse (RVLC) is in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, and illustrated in N. Gasc, The Nissim de Camondo Museum, Paris, 1991, p. 30. It further relates closely with a pair of commodes by Martin-Guillaume Cramer from the estate of Ethel Shields Garrett, sold Christie's New York, 5 November 1986, lot 202, and a further commode by Cramer in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, illustrated in op.cit., p. 22.
It is interesting to note that the marble top was described as being pink in the 1931 sale, which does indicate that it was probably replaced thereafter. The mounts, however, appear to be the same as illustrated in the sale catalogue of 1931 and seem thus to have been replaced at an earlier period.