A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER COMMODE of bombé shape by M. Criaerd, with moulded serpentine brèche d'Alep marble top above two drawers decorated sans traverse with birds and flowering shrubs and mounted with pierced rockwork and foliate scrolls, with waved apron centred by a bat's wing motif, the keeled angles with pierced scrolled mounts, on cabriole legs and scrolled sabots, the sides with conforming decoration, some of the mounts stamped with the 'C' couronné poinçon, stamped M.CRIAERD, repairs to lacquer
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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE BLACK AND GILT-LACQUER COMMODE of bombé shape by M. Criaerd, with moulded serpentine brèche d'Alep marble top above two drawers decorated sans traverse with birds and flowering shrubs and mounted with pierced rockwork and foliate scrolls, with waved apron centred by a bat's wing motif, the keeled angles with pierced scrolled mounts, on cabriole legs and scrolled sabots, the sides with conforming decoration, some of the mounts stamped with the 'C' couronné poinçon, stamped M.CRIAERD, repairs to lacquer
35¾in. (116cm.) wide; 33in. (84cm.)high; 23in. (58.5cm.)deep