A PAIR OF LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD COMMODE À VANTAUX

IN THE MANNER OF ANTOINE GAUDREAUX

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A PAIR OF LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD COMMODE À VANTAUX
In The Manner Of Antoine Gaudreaux
Each with a serpentine moulded white marble top above a confomring case applied with medallions depicting mythological figures, flowering vines and ribbon-tied coins and fitted with two doors each enclosing two drawers, on foliate cast cabriole legs headed by ram's masks
38in. (96.5cm.) high, 71in. (180.3cm.) wide, 27¾in. (70.5cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

The offered lot is a copy of a commode à vantaux supplied by Antoine Gaudreaux for Louis XV for the Royal apartments at Versailles in 1739. The cabinet was made to house Louis XV's collection of medals and is now in the bibliothèque Nationale (See J. Meuvret et. al., French Cabinet Makers of the Eighteenth Century, 1963, p.59, pl.3).