A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY COMMODE, after the model by J. H. Reisner, with a red-grey-coloured marble shaped breakfront top above a frieze drawer with guilloche and foliate rosette inset panel above a pair of drawers inlaid sans traverse with a marquetry of flowers within an ormolu band with shaped corners and with four rosettes, flanked to each side by a parquetry panel within a similar border, above a shaped apron and with square-shaped supports headed by festoon brackets with acanthus-cast knees, with claw and foliate-cast sabots,late 19th/20th Century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY COMMODE, after the model by J. H. Reisner, with a red-grey-coloured marble shaped breakfront top above a frieze drawer with guilloche and foliate rosette inset panel above a pair of drawers inlaid sans traverse with a marquetry of flowers within an ormolu band with shaped corners and with four rosettes, flanked to each side by a parquetry panel within a similar border, above a shaped apron and with square-shaped supports headed by festoon brackets with acanthus-cast knees, with claw and foliate-cast sabots,late 19th/20th Century
52in. (132cm.) wide; 33½in. (85.7cm.) high; 21in. (53.4cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

The pattern for this commode corresponds to that delivered in 1771 by Gilles Joubert (d.1775) for the appartments of the Comtesse de Provence at Fontainebleau and bearing the R.V.L.C. brand of Roger Vandercruse, called Lacroix (maître 1755) (see P. Kjeillberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p.574)

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