A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK, SCARLET AND GOLD VERNIS MARTIN COMMODE EN CONSOLE

CIRCA 1750

Details

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK, SCARLET AND GOLD VERNIS MARTIN COMMODE EN CONSOLE
Circa 1750
Of bomb form, the associated serpentine-fronted moulded brche violette marble top above a single arc en arbalette drawer with waved apron, the drawer and sides decorated with musicians, hunting parties and tea-drinking chinoiserie figures in a pavilion landscape, on cabriole legs with pierced foliate-cast angle-mounts and channelled chutes trailing to foliate-cast sabots, one chute and one sabot stamped with the 'C' couronn poinon, the top numbered in blue chalk 306
34in. (87cm.) high, 38in. (98.5cm.) wide, 21in. (54.5cm.) deep

Provenance

The collection of Octave Homberg, sold in Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 5 June 1931, lot 306.

Lot Essay

The 'C' Couronn poinon was a tax mark used in France between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.

A closely related console table, almost certainly executed by the same hand and applied with closely related Chinese lacquer panels, was sold from the collection of Madame Heidelbach, M. Alphonse Bellier, Paris, 16 December 1933, lot 57.

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