THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR
(Lots 4-23)
A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL BOULLE COMMODE
Details
A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID RED TORTOISESHELL BOULLE COMMODE
Decorated overall en première partie with Bérainesque scenes, the bowed rectangular top centred by Venus on her scallop-shell within an architectural setting with various music-making figures and banded by a moulded border, above two short and two long drawers between rounded fluted angles and conformingly-decorated sides on an ebony ground, the shaped apron with pierced scrolling foliate mounts above bracket feet, remounted, possibly reduced in height
47 in. (119.5 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76 cm.) high; 23¼ in. (59 cm.) deep
Decorated overall en première partie with Bérainesque scenes, the bowed rectangular top centred by Venus on her scallop-shell within an architectural setting with various music-making figures and banded by a moulded border, above two short and two long drawers between rounded fluted angles and conformingly-decorated sides on an ebony ground, the shaped apron with pierced scrolling foliate mounts above bracket feet, remounted, possibly reduced in height
47 in. (119.5 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76 cm.) high; 23¼ in. (59 cm.) deep