A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE

BY FRANOIS IGNACE PAPST

细节

A DIRECTOIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE
By Franois Ignace Papst
The rounded rectangular grey-veined white marble top above a panelled secrtaire-drawer with beaded mouldings and escutcheon with a 'D' monogram, enclosing two drawers and a leather-lined writing-surface, above two conforming drawers, the rounded fluted angles with chandelles, above a fluted band and on turned tapering legs with turned caps, stamped twice 'F.J.PAPST', inscribed in chalk to the reverse '49' and with remains of paper label inscribed in ink '21/12/...5', inscribed to the underside of the marble 'que Sabot marke de commode 14.5.69', the secrtaire-drawer re-fitted, partially remounted
34 in. (88 cm.) high; 51 in. (131 cm.) wide; 22 in. (58 cm.) deep

来源

Collection Seligmann, sold Paris, 8 and 9 May 1914, lot 214 (FF 4.800). Collection Corinna Kavanagh, Buenos Aires, sold Sotheby's London, 22 November 1963, lot 49.
Anonymous sale Christie's Monaco, 15 June 1996, lot 52.

出版

Salverte, Les Ebnistes du XVIIIe sicle, Paris, 1953, pl. LIII.

拍品专文

Franois Ignace Papst, matre in 1785.

A Louis XVI secrtaire abattant made en suite to this commode is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Franais du XVIIIe sicle, Paris, 1989, p. 633, ill. A.

Interestingly the 1963 sale catalogue suggests that the cypher of the escutcheons of this commode are probably that of Madame Dubarry.