A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK AND GOLD LACQUER COMMODE

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BLACK AND GOLD LACQUER COMMODE
MID-18TH CENTURY, STAMPED I. DUBOIS JME

With serpentine moulded brêche d'Alép marble top above two long drawers decorated sans traverse with a chinoiserie landscape within foliate-cast rocaille encadrement, the sides similarly decorated and mounted, with shaped apron on splayed legs headed by shell-cast foliate chutes continuing to foliate-cast sabots--35½in. (88.7cm.) high, 56in. (140cm.) wide, 25½in. (63.7cm.) deep

Jacques Dubois, mâitre in 1742

PROVENANCE
Baron Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano

Exhibited
Detroit , Detroit Institute of Art, French Taste in the Eighteenth Century, April-June 1956, no. 35