A GILTMETAL-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH COMMODE, in the style of Pierre-Antoine Foullet, the pink and white marble top above two drawers inlaid and mounted sans traverse with a flowerhead filled guilloche frieze, with a central oval marquetry panel of lovers within a ribboned border, flanked to each side by an oval with a basket of flowers, between canted, fluted angles and on squared cabriole legs and foliate sabots, late 19th 20th Century

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A GILTMETAL-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH COMMODE, in the style of Pierre-Antoine Foullet, the pink and white marble top above two drawers inlaid and mounted sans traverse with a flowerhead filled guilloche frieze, with a central oval marquetry panel of lovers within a ribboned border, flanked to each side by an oval with a basket of flowers, between canted, fluted angles and on squared cabriole legs and foliate sabots, late 19th 20th Century
56¼in. (143cm.) wide; 34in. (86cm.) high; 23¾in. (60cm.) deep

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This floral marquetry commode, designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' style of the 1760s, embellished with a laurel-wreathed rustic medallion of a courting couple, is copied from one bearing the stamp of Pierre- Antoine Foullet, who was elected maître ebeniste in 1765.
See P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Francais du XVIII Siècle, Paris 1989, p. 325

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