拍品專文
These commodes, flanked by china display-shelves in the English fashion ('à l'Anglaise') introduced in the 1770's, were executed in the Versailles workshops established in the rue Duplessis by Adrien-Antoine Gosselin (maître in 1772), after he and his father Antoine Gosselin (maître in 1752) had moved from their Parisian workshops in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine. The arabesque escutcheons, with Apollo masks wreathed by flowered-laurel, are a reduced version of a mount adopted by Jean-Henri Riesener, 'ébéniste ordinaire du Roi' between 1774-84, and probably supplied by Pierre Gouthière (maître in 1765), King Louis XVI's ciseleur-doreur.
Such 'commodes à l'Anglaise' enjoyed considerable popularity amongst the English aristocracy, and this was soon capitalised upon by the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre, who established his shop in Piccadilly in 1788. Extensively patronised by George, Prince of Wales, later George IV and his Court, Daguerre supplied a commode of this basic form, mounted with Sèvres plaques, for the Bow Room at Carlton House, as well as a lacquer-veneered example for Earl Spencer in 1791, which is now at Althorp.
Such 'commodes à l'Anglaise' enjoyed considerable popularity amongst the English aristocracy, and this was soon capitalised upon by the marchand-mercier Dominique Daguerre, who established his shop in Piccadilly in 1788. Extensively patronised by George, Prince of Wales, later George IV and his Court, Daguerre supplied a commode of this basic form, mounted with Sèvres plaques, for the Bow Room at Carlton House, as well as a lacquer-veneered example for Earl Spencer in 1791, which is now at Althorp.