A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE

CIRCA 1785, STAMPED THREE TIMES JH RIESENER AND ONCE C RICHTER

Details

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE
Circa 1785, stamped three times JH RIESENER and once C RICHTER
The rectangular white marble top with canted corners above three short and two long drawers mounted with beaded surrounds, flanked by canted panelled angles, on square tapering fluted legs with brass feet
35in. (90cm.) high, 45in. (115.5cm.) wide, 22in. (57cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 6 November 1982, lot 86

Lot Essay

Jean-Henri Riesener, matre in 1768
Charles Erdman Richter, matre in 1784
A number of pieces are known carrying the stamp of both these bnistes, which were probably sub-contracted by Riesener to Richter to complete in his workshop, including a commode sold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 30 May 1951, lot 5.