A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE BLACK LACQUER BOMBE COMMODE by Pierre Garnier, the serpentine-fronted moulded brêche d'alep marble top above a pair of graduated long drawers decorated sans traverse with foliate-sprays and birds within foliate arabesque borders, the swollen angles with C-scroll cabochon and acanthus-cast mounts flanked by bombé sides with similarly decorated panels, above a shaped C-scroll and foliate-mounted apron and on splayed legs with ormolu sabots, stamped twice P. GARNIER JME and also bearing three times a triple fleur de lys symbol centred by an L, some of the mounts struck with the C Couronné poinçon, restorations and partially re-mounted, the marble top repaired and with later under-frame

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE BLACK LACQUER BOMBE COMMODE by Pierre Garnier, the serpentine-fronted moulded brêche d'alep marble top above a pair of graduated long drawers decorated sans traverse with foliate-sprays and birds within foliate arabesque borders, the swollen angles with C-scroll cabochon and acanthus-cast mounts flanked by bombé sides with similarly decorated panels, above a shaped C-scroll and foliate-mounted apron and on splayed legs with ormolu sabots, stamped twice P. GARNIER JME and also bearing three times a triple fleur de lys symbol centred by an L, some of the mounts struck with the C Couronné poinçon, restorations and partially re-mounted, the marble top repaired and with later under-frame
60½in. (153.5cm.) wide; 34in. (86cm.) high; 26in. (66cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale in these Rooms, 21 November 1963

Lot Essay

Pierre Garnier, matre in 1742
The C Couronné poinçon was a tax mark used between February 1745 and March 1749 on any alloy containing copper

A related commode, stamped F.G. was sold from the Keck Collection, Sotheby's New York, 4 December 1991, lot 254

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