Lot Essay
Jean Petit, maître in 1767.
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
(Lots 55-60)
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND PARQUETRY BOMBE PETITE COMMODE
BY JEAN PETIT
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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND PARQUETRY BOMBE PETITE COMMODE
By Jean Petit
The waved, eared galleried rectangular grey-veined white marble top above a fitted frieze drawer with leather-lined hinged writing-slide flanked by pen-trays and above a tambour-slide and two further drawers, the bombé sides and back inlaid à quatre faces, above a waved apron and on cabriole legs with foliate sabots, remounted, restorations to the secretaire-drawer, the marble possibly replaced, stamped 'I. PETIT' and 'JME'
19½ in. (49.5 cm.) wide; 31 in. (79 cm.) high; 14¼ in. (36.5 cm.) deep
By Jean Petit
The waved, eared galleried rectangular grey-veined white marble top above a fitted frieze drawer with leather-lined hinged writing-slide flanked by pen-trays and above a tambour-slide and two further drawers, the bombé sides and back inlaid à quatre faces, above a waved apron and on cabriole legs with foliate sabots, remounted, restorations to the secretaire-drawer, the marble possibly replaced, stamped 'I. PETIT' and 'JME'
19½ in. (49.5 cm.) wide; 31 in. (79 cm.) high; 14¼ in. (36.5 cm.) deep