A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BURR-YEW, EBONY, EBONISED AND MARQUETRY COMMODE A ENCOIGNURES, banded overall in kingwood, of bombé form, with associated moulded eared serpentine brèche d'aleps marble top above two drawers decorated sans traverse with a central cartouche containing stalky branches with flowerheads and berries issuing from a pomegranite, the sides each with conforming cartouche decoration and hinged door enclosing two shelves, between keeled angles with acanthus-cast pierced angle mounts, centred by berried foliage, with waved apron, on cabriole legs and foliate scrolled sabots

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BURR-YEW, EBONY, EBONISED AND MARQUETRY COMMODE A ENCOIGNURES, banded overall in kingwood, of bombé form, with associated moulded eared serpentine brèche d'aleps marble top above two drawers decorated sans traverse with a central cartouche containing stalky branches with flowerheads and berries issuing from a pomegranite, the sides each with conforming cartouche decoration and hinged door enclosing two shelves, between keeled angles with acanthus-cast pierced angle mounts, centred by berried foliage, with waved apron, on cabriole legs and foliate scrolled sabots
61in. (155cm.) wide; 34½in. (87.5cm.) high; 28in. (71cm.) deep

Provenance

The Dukes of Gordon, Scotland, acquired in the 18th century.
Elizabeth, 5th Duchess of Gordon (1794-1864), née Brodie; inherited from the 5th Duke and bequeathed by her, along with many other works of art, to her family, the Brodies.
The Brodie of Brodie, Brodie Castle, Elgin, Scotland

Lot Essay

A commode of an almost identical shape, with the same pattern of angle mount and also fitted with doors to the sides, is in the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. The Dulwich commode is decorated with musical trophies within a cartouche of similar outline and has a marquetry top. It was bequeathed to the Gallery in 1813 by Margaret Desenfans who had inherited it either from her husband Noel Joseph Desenfans (d. 1807) or from their great friend Sir Francis Bourgeois (d. 1811)

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