A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND TRELLIS- PARQUETRY BREAKFRONT COMMODE

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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND TRELLIS- PARQUETRY BREAKFRONT COMMODE
The eared, moulded, breakfront rectangular brêche violette marble top above a Vitruvian-scroll panelled frieze with chandelles and incorporating three drawers with concealed keyholes, the pounced channelled band above two further long drawers inlaid sans traverse with three panels of rosette-trellis parquetry within guilloche-channelled bases with rosettes to the cut-corners, the rounded angles with laurel-swagged acanthus and guilloche tapering mounts, above a simulated flutes shaped apron with central drapery-swagged Mercury mask, on foliate-headed turned tapering legs inlaid with simulated fluted and foliate feet, restorations, the marble with old repair, the long drawers with oak veneer to the reverse of the drawer-front, restorations to the apron, some mounts possibly replaced
58 in. (147.5 cm.) wide; 36¼ in. (92 cm.) high; 25¾ in. (65.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Christie's Monaco, 7 December 1985, lot 125.

Literature

Sir Francis Watson, 'The English as Collectors of French Furniture', Connoisseur, May 1974, p.85, fig.12.

Lot Essay

This distinctive Mercury-mask apron-mount appears on the pair of commodes supplied by Roger Vandercruse, dit Lacroix and delivered in 1772 by the ébéniste du Roi Gilles Joubert for the salon de Compagnie of Madame du Barry at Versailles, as well as on the commodes by Mathieu Guillaume Cramer, supplied in 1771 for the chambre à coucher of the comte de Provence at Fontainebleau (H.Roberts, 'Gilles Joubert as Sub-Contractor; some recent discoveries', Furniture History Society Journal, 1988, pp.32-8).

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