A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARQUETRY COMMODE

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED PARQUETRY COMMODE
In the Louis XV style, after the model by Antoine Gaudreaux, late 19th Century

With a serpentine-shaped griotte marble top, above a pair of doors, each centred by an oval medallion, within ribbon-tied foliate frames, the interior with four small drawers, the sides each with an oval medallion, on scroll legs headed by rams' maskmountswithscroll feet
67½in. (171cm.) wide; 36½in. (93cm.) high; 25½in. (65cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The serpentined commode hung with medals and flower-festooned medaillons of a bacchante and youth on a Bacchic panther and goat, derives from the celebrated commode designed for Louis XV's apartment at Versailles by Antoine-Sebastian Slodtz and manufactured by Antoine Gaudreaux in 1739.

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