A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED POLYCHROME-LACQUER BOMBE COMMODE, the serpentine-fronted moulded brêche d'alep marble top above two long drawers decorated sans traverse with flowers and birds within a red and parcel-gilt rectalinear border, the swollen angles mounted with laurel-cast C-scrolls above a Greek-key frieze, the sides decorated with chinoiserie figures with an ox in an extensive mountainous landscape and with cockerels, above a shaped apron with scrolled acanthus mount and on tapering legs with acanthus-cast sabots, the marble distressed and with chalk inscription 30, possibly German

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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED POLYCHROME-LACQUER BOMBE COMMODE, the serpentine-fronted moulded brêche d'alep marble top above two long drawers decorated sans traverse with flowers and birds within a red and parcel-gilt rectalinear border, the swollen angles mounted with laurel-cast C-scrolls above a Greek-key frieze, the sides decorated with chinoiserie figures with an ox in an extensive mountainous landscape and with cockerels, above a shaped apron with scrolled acanthus mount and on tapering legs with acanthus-cast sabots, the marble distressed and with chalk inscription 30, possibly German
51¼in. (130cm.) wide; 34¼in. (87cm.) high; 25½in. (65cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A closely related coromandel lacquer commode by Jean-Baptiste Fromageau, with similar angle-mounts, identical sabots and of rectilinear form was sold anonymously at Sotheby's, Monaco, 16 June 1990, lot 853, while the stylised acanthus-spray apron mount is shared by that on a commode by Claude-Charles Saunier (see P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Francais du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 772). The unusual Greek-key frieze to the angle-mounts are displayed in the work of Léonard Boudin (cf. the petit secrètaire illustrated in S. Eriksen, Early Neo-Classicism in France, London, 1974, fig. 109

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