A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED COMMODE, after the model by Antoine Gaudreaux, with a serpentine-shaped rouge marble top, above a pair of doors, each centred by an oval frame, one with a lion and bacchante, the other with a bacchic cherub and goat, each within a ribbon-tied foliate-scrolled frame with chained pendant portrait medallions on a parquetry ground, the central upright with a pierced rectangular frame cast with a mask above, the sides similarly decorated with an oval frame, cast with a seated hero and his companion, the other with the figure of Hercules, the interior with shelves, on four ram's mask monopodiae each with scrolled foot,late 19th Century

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED COMMODE, after the model by Antoine Gaudreaux, with a serpentine-shaped rouge marble top, above a pair of doors, each centred by an oval frame, one with a lion and bacchante, the other with a bacchic cherub and goat, each within a ribbon-tied foliate-scrolled frame with chained pendant portrait medallions on a parquetry ground, the central upright with a pierced rectangular frame cast with a mask above, the sides similarly decorated with an oval frame, cast with a seated hero and his companion, the other with the figure of Hercules, the interior with shelves, on four ram's mask monopodiae each with scrolled foot,late 19th Century
R71½in. (181.5cm.) wide; 37in. (94cm.) high; 26¾in. (68cm.) deep

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The serpentined commode hung with medals and flower-festooned medallions of a bacchante and youth on a bacchic panther and goat derives from the celebrated commode designed for Louis XV's apartment at Versailles by Antoine-Sebastian Slodtz and manufactured by Antoine Gaudreaux in 1739.
A Napoleon III version sold at Sotheby's London, 12th June, 1987, lot 663 was signed by Hippolyte-Edme Pretot (d. 1855) and dated 1847.