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)