Property of THE LATE NIGEL CAMPBELL, M.C. Sold By Order of the Executors

A LOUIS XV/XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY, COROMANDEL LACQUER, EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT COMMODE

CIRCA 1760, STAMPED C C SAUNIER JME

Details

A LOUIS XV/XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY, COROMANDEL LACQUER, EBONISED AND PARCEL-GILT COMMODE
circa 1760, stamped c c saunier jme
With associated moulded serpentine brêche d'Alèp top above two long drawers applied sans traverse with a Chinese coromandel lacquer panel showing playful children in a balustrated garden with channelled cut-cornered frame and foliate-spray angle clasps, the bombé angles mounted with espagnolette masks with husk and lambrequin-trailed C-scroll bodies, the shaped sides with further panels depicting baskets of flowers, the waved apron with central acanthus spray, on tapering splayed legs and tapering claw feet, with chalk inscription 89 and pencil inscription Marbre de la/commode en laque/de coromandle/préparée chez rue Brugie/13-5-72 PARTRIDGE
35in. (89cm.) high, 60¼in. (153cm.) wide, 24¾in. (63cm.) deep

Provenance

The Thelusson Collection

Literature

P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 772

Lot Essay

Claude-Charles Saunier, maître in 1752

Claude-Charles Saunier was born in Paris in 1735 and was descended from a dynasty of ébénistes. A precursor of the Neoclassical style probably executed for a specific commission, this commode certainly reflects the interaction of either the marchand-merciers Simon-Philippe Poirier or François Darnault.