A French ormolu-mounted mahogany commode

IN THE LOUIS XVI STYLE, AFTER JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, CIRCA 1880

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A French ormolu-mounted mahogany commode
In the Louis XVI Style, After Jean-Henri Riesener, Circa 1880
The shaped brche marble top above three frieze drawers cast with a band of Vitruvian scroll, above a pair of drawers, with scrolling foliage and flower basket escutcheons and laurel-wreath handles, with concave sides, the angles with a flower-garlanded and acanthus-cast fluted volute, on tapering foliate-cast legs and capped feet
76 in. (193 cm.) wide; 40 in. (102.8 cm.) high; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The two-drawered commodes supplied in 1786 by Riesener (d. 1806) for the Versailles apartments designed by the architect R. Mique for Marie-Antoinette, provided the prototype for this Louis XVI style commode (see P. Verlet, Le Mobilier Royal Franais, Paris, 1990, no. 14).

Another example of this model of commode, by the celebrated Parisian bniste Paul Sormani, was sold in these rooms 16 June 1994, lot 197.

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