Lot 191
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A FRENCH PROVINCIAL BRASS-MOUNTED WALNUT COMMODE

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A FRENCH PROVINCIAL BRASS-MOUNTED WALNUT COMMODE
LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY PROVENCE

With serpentine top above two drawers with foliate-carved scroll panels and pierced rocaille and scroll-carved undulating apron on cabriole legs with scroll feet headed by acanthus-35in. (89cm.) high, 50in. (127cm.) wide, 27in. (69cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Two closely related commodes, one from Nîmes and one from Avignon, are illustrated in M.-J. Beumelle et al., Les arts Décoratifs en Provence, pls. 44 and 45, and another in the Château de Barbentane is illustrated in situ in C. Fregnac ed., Merveilles de Châteaux de Provence, 1965, p. 24.