AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, CIRCA 1900

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY COMMODE
After the model by Jean-Henri Riesener, Circa 1900
The white marble top above and egg-and-dart-cast frieze and a pair of drawers headed by an Apollo mask above laurel branches, with central panel inlaid sans traverse with a marquetry of ewer and basket of fruit and flowers, above a fleur-de-lys-studded globe supported on crossed cornucopiae and oak branches, flanked to each side by a foliate parquetry panel headed with a floral swag, above putti emblematic of Justice and Temperance, the rounded sides each with a parquetry-inlaid cupboard door hung with floral swags and ribbon-suspended military trophies, the angles mounted with figures emblematic of Mars, Hercules, Temperance and Prudence, on square tapering acanthus-mounted feet
38½in. (97.8cm.) high; 86in. (218.5cm.) wide; 31½in. (80cm.) deep

Provenance

20th Century Fox, sold Hollywood Palladium, 16 January 1978
Subsequently purchased Gisele's Antiques, Los Angeles.

Lot Essay

The design of the present commode is based on an original model executed by Jean-Henri Riesener (maître 1768) in 1775 and supplied to Louis XVI as a replacement for the sumptuous commode by Gaudreaux and Caffièri (supplied in 1739) in the Chambre du Roi at Versailles. The original commode is now in the Musée Condé at Chantilly.

Another example of this model commode sold Christie's East, 14 October 1999, lot 410 ($40,000).

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