A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY COMMODES, the Transitional style, after Riesener, each with a variegated green and white marble top with a moulded edge and canted corners, the frieze with a central drawer, flanked by two small drawers, above a pair of drawers centred by a marquetry panel inlaid sans traverse with a ewer, basket of fruit and foliage, the sides with parquetry panels, the canted angles with laurel festooned volute brackets above shaped tapering legs with foliate and claw sabots, one with silvered label to the centre drawer, engraved, Bronze et Meuble d'Art/MOTTHEAU.PARIS, late 19th Century

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A PAIR OF FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY COMMODES, the Transitional style, after Riesener, each with a variegated green and white marble top with a moulded edge and canted corners, the frieze with a central drawer, flanked by two small drawers, above a pair of drawers centred by a marquetry panel inlaid sans traverse with a ewer, basket of fruit and foliage, the sides with parquetry panels, the canted angles with laurel festooned volute brackets above shaped tapering legs with foliate and claw sabots, one with silvered label to the centre drawer, engraved, Bronze et Meuble d'Art/MOTTHEAU.PARIS, late 19th Century
46in. (116.8cm.) wide; 36½in. (92.7cm.) high; 21¼in. (54cm.) deep (2)

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Designed in the Louis XVI manner associated with the court ébéniste Jean-Henri Riesener (Maître 1768), its pastoral trophy vignette, within trellis panels, derives from a commode supplied for Versailles in 1775 and now in the Musée de Condé, Chantilly. The marquetry panels, combined with the acanthus apron and leg mounts, feature on a commode illustrated in a late 19th century trade catalogue of F. Linke of 170 Rue du Faubourg St. Antoine, Paris, plate VII

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