Details
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODE
STAMPED D F TWICE
With serpentine brêche d'alèp marble top, above two long drawers inlaid sans traverse in bois-de-bout with floral sprays within foliate-cast encadrements, the sides similarly inlaid and mounted, the angles fitted with pierced foliate-cast chutes continuing down splayed legs ending in similarly cast sabots, the mounts struck with the 'C' couronné poinçon (reveneered)--34in. (86.5cm.) high, 41½in. (105cm.) wide, 18½ (47cm.) deep
PROVENANCE
Mrs. Evelyn St. George, Cam House, London, sold Sotheby's, 24 London 1939, lot 93
The stamp DF has traditionally been thought to be that of Jean Desforges, maître ébéniste recorded as working in Paris, Faubourg-Saint-Antoine in 1739. However, recently it has been suggested that the stamp is that of François Faizelot-Delorme, maître in before 1735 (A. Prad©re, Les Ébénistes François de Louis XV à la Révolution, 1989, p. 177). Pradère illustrates (op. cit., p. 177. fig. 161), an identically mounted commode and another from the collection of Sylvia and Emma Jackson was sold in these Rooms, 8 May 1991, lot 116.
The 'C' couronné poinçon was a tax mark used between March 1745 and February 1745 on any alloy containing copper.
STAMPED D F TWICE
With serpentine brêche d'alèp marble top, above two long drawers inlaid sans traverse in bois-de-bout with floral sprays within foliate-cast encadrements, the sides similarly inlaid and mounted, the angles fitted with pierced foliate-cast chutes continuing down splayed legs ending in similarly cast sabots, the mounts struck with the 'C' couronné poinçon (reveneered)--34in. (86.5cm.) high, 41½in. (105cm.) wide, 18½ (47cm.) deep
PROVENANCE
Mrs. Evelyn St. George, Cam House, London, sold Sotheby's, 24 London 1939, lot 93
The stamp DF has traditionally been thought to be that of Jean Desforges, maître ébéniste recorded as working in Paris, Faubourg-Saint-Antoine in 1739. However, recently it has been suggested that the stamp is that of François Faizelot-Delorme, maître in before 1735 (A. Prad©re, Les Ébénistes François de Louis XV à la Révolution, 1989, p. 177). Pradère illustrates (op. cit., p. 177. fig. 161), an identically mounted commode and another from the collection of Sylvia and Emma Jackson was sold in these Rooms, 8 May 1991, lot 116.
The 'C' couronné poinçon was a tax mark used between March 1745 and February 1745 on any alloy containing copper.