A LOUIS XV STYLE GILT-METAL MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND KINGWOOD COMMODE À VANTAUX

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A LOUIS XV STYLE GILT-METAL MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND KINGWOOD COMMODE À VANTAUX

IN THE MANNER OF ANTOINE GAUDREAUX

With a serpentine moulded red and white mottled marble top above a conforming case fitted with two doors applied with foliate scrolls drapery centering a medallion with classical figures end enclosing six drawers on massive foliate cast cabriole legs with scroll feet headed by ram's masks (bearing the inscription 'Sormani, Paris 134 BD Haussmann.)
37½in. (95.3cm.) high, 74in. (187.9cm.) wide, 26½in. (67.3cm.) deep

來源

Sold Christie's East Sept. 15, 1987 Lot 253
Maxwell Collection, Fort Worth, Texas

拍品專文

The offered lot is a copy of a commode à vantaux supplied by Antoine Gaudreaux for Louis XV for the Royal apartments at Versailles in 1739. The cabinet was specifically made to house Louis XV's collection of medals and is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale (see J. Meuvret et al., French Cabinet Makers of the Eighteenth Century, 1963, p.59, pl.3).