AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT COMMODE BY HENRY DASSON, after the design by J.-H. Riesener, with a brocatelle marble top, the frieze with three drawers and mounted to the front and sides with ribbon-tied foliate wreaths, above a pair of deep drawers with lozenge-shaped centre panel, and a ribbon-tied floral wreath flanked by two cornucopiae, with ormolu borders and four sunflower-head mounts and floral garlands, on tapering octagonal feet with acanthus-cast sabots, stamped HENRY DASSON/1879 at the top of the back left-hand upright (the centre drawer with paper label inscribed in ink Brienen), last quarter 19th Century

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AN ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT COMMODE BY HENRY DASSON, after the design by J.-H. Riesener, with a brocatelle marble top, the frieze with three drawers and mounted to the front and sides with ribbon-tied foliate wreaths, above a pair of deep drawers with lozenge-shaped centre panel, and a ribbon-tied floral wreath flanked by two cornucopiae, with ormolu borders and four sunflower-head mounts and floral garlands, on tapering octagonal feet with acanthus-cast sabots, stamped HENRY DASSON/1879 at the top of the back left-hand upright (the centre drawer with paper label inscribed in ink Brienen), last quarter 19th Century
53½in. (136.5cm.) wide; 37¼in. (94.5cm.) high; 24½in. (62cm.) deep

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Designed in the Louis XVI manner and embellished with flowered ormolu enrichments comprising sunflowers, festoons and a ribbon-tied garland bound to cornucopiae, the commode derives from a marquetry version supplied by J.-H. Riesener for the Tuileries Palace about 1770 (now in the Louvre) and a mahogany-veneered commode now in the Wallace Collection, London (F.248) which was exhibited at the Musée Rétrospectif, Paris, in 1865. Henry Dasson (d. 1896), one of the leading Parisian manufacturers of furniture in the 18th Century style, exhibited at the 1878 Exposition Universelle

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