IN THE LOUIS XVI STYLE, AFTER THE MODEL BY STOCKEL AND BENEMAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A French ormolu-mounted mahogany commode a vanteaux
In the Louis XVI style, After the model by Stockel and Beneman, Late 19th Century
The brèche violette marble top with rounded corners and moulded edge, above three frieze drawers, above a pair of panel doors centred by a ribbon-tied roundel cast in high relief with a bacchante and youthful styre, the interior with six drawers, the sides also decorated with a roundel depicting bacchic revelery, within a rectangular panel, flanked by fluted columnar uprights with capitals, on toupie feet, the marble top with old repairs
71½in. (181.5cm.) wide; 38in. (96.5cm.) high; 29½in. (75cm.) deep

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The commode's prototype, which was executed for Marie Antoinette and is now in the Queen's apartment at Fontainebleau, was altered in the 1780s by Guillaume Beneman (Mâitre in 1785) and its facade was later embellished with a Sevres biscuit plaque (see P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du 18e Siecle, Paris, 1989. p. 59 No E.). Beneman was also involved in the manufacture of cases for a clock and barometer supplied for the Queen's Versailles apartments, and these were embellished with Bacchic bas reliefs like those on the commode's sides (similar bronze roundels were sold Christie's 5 July 1994, lot 106). Another commode of this pattern was sold by Messrs. Foster of Pall Mall, 28 November, 1938 (lot 303).