A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE

STAMPED THREE TIMES FG AND TWICE JME, CIRCA 1745

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE
Stamped three times FG and twice JME, Circa 1745
The shaped brche-d'Alep marble top above two conforming drawers with parquetry veneer and an elaborate heart-shaped scrolled-rocaille mount, the escutcheon an asymmetrical scrolled-rocaille, the side similarly veneered with square panels with re-entrant corners, on cabriole legs with scrolled-foliate sabots, the angles set with scrolled-rocailles above molded chutes, the mounts regilt, inscribed 130 in red paint
35in. (89.5cm.) high, 57in. (145cm.) wide, 25in. (65cm.) deep

Provenance

The Countess of Craven, Coombe Abbey, Warwickshire, sold Sotheby's London, 15 December 1961, lot 172.

Lot Essay

Probably Francois Garnier (d. 1774), father of Pierre Garnier, established his workshop on rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine during the reign of Louis XV.

The distinctive angle-mounts are usually associated with the oeuvre of Jacques Dubois (matre in 1742), who was established in the rue de Charenton. Commmodes with related angle-mounts include that formerly in the collection of the Earls of Haddington at Tyninghame, Scotland (illustrated in Partridge Summer Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1990, no.45, pp.106-7) and another illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Franais du XVIIIe Sicle, Paris, 1989, p.271.

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