A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOULLE BRASS-INLAID CORNE VERTE AND EBONY COMMODE inlaid overall en premier and contre-partie, with berainesque designs, the flared rounded rectangular top with gadrooned and husk-enriched rim inlaid with a central dancing figure flanked by playful putti beneath a baldequin, surrounded by further figures, masks and musicians within a trailing foliate border and within an outer ebony border, the three serpentine-fronted graduated long drawers similarly inlaid with three panels and with a central bacchic satyr-mask escutcheon between rounded angles with foliate trails, the raised panelled sides with similar inlay upon ormolu hairy-paw feet, restorations

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A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOULLE BRASS-INLAID CORNE VERTE AND EBONY COMMODE inlaid overall en premier and contre-partie, with berainesque designs, the flared rounded rectangular top with gadrooned and husk-enriched rim inlaid with a central dancing figure flanked by playful putti beneath a baldequin, surrounded by further figures, masks and musicians within a trailing foliate border and within an outer ebony border, the three serpentine-fronted graduated long drawers similarly inlaid with three panels and with a central bacchic satyr-mask escutcheon between rounded angles with foliate trails, the raised panelled sides with similar inlay upon ormolu hairy-paw feet, restorations
47¾in. (121cm.) wide; 32¾in. (83cm.) high; 26in. (66cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous Sale in these Rooms, 26 April 1981, lot 113

Lot Essay

A contre-partie boulle commode in the Wallace Collection is similarly inlaid but lacks the unusual refinement of the blue/green stained horn (Cat. F.39). Similar bacchic-mask lockplates appear on a commode from the collection of the late Mrs J.M.Hanbury sold in these Rooms, 3 December 1964, lot 125 and on another commode sold Christie's, Donacomper, Co. Kildare, 25 July, 1977, lot 75

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