Lot Essay
The distinctive form of this lot with slightly outcurved sides of relates it to a group of commodes executed in the late Louis XIV and the early Régence periods, many of which are veneered with Boulle inlay (see P. Grand, "Le Mobilier Boulle et les Ateliers de L'Epoque", L'Estampille/Objet d'Art, no. 266, February 1993, pp. 60-61, figs. 20-25).
An example with similar elegant patterning of interlacing circles and diamonds was sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 7 May 1983, lot 211 and again sold, Sotheby's New York, 31 October 1987, lot 139. A commode of similar proportions and mounts with a later marble top is in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection, 1974, vol. I, p. 198, no. 43); and another is in the Musée Carnavelet (illustrated in S. de Ricci, Louis XIV und Régence, 1929, p. 184).
An example with similar elegant patterning of interlacing circles and diamonds was sold, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 7 May 1983, lot 211 and again sold, Sotheby's New York, 31 October 1987, lot 139. A commode of similar proportions and mounts with a later marble top is in the James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection, 1974, vol. I, p. 198, no. 43); and another is in the Musée Carnavelet (illustrated in S. de Ricci, Louis XIV und Régence, 1929, p. 184).