A LOUIS XV/LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE POLYCHROME-LACQUER COMMODE

CIRCA 1770, STAMPED L. FOUREAU JME

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A LOUIS XV/LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE POLYCHROME-LACQUER COMMODE
Circa 1770, stamped L. FOUREAU JME
With later eared liver marble top above two slightly bowed drawers decorated sans traverse with hunters on horseback, the rounded angles with fluted mounts cast with a roundel of the Infant Hercules, with waved apron, on cabriole legs, with two labels inscribed in ink 15180, with typed label Collection André Meyer New York 1970 and typed label inscribed E8, the legs spliced
34in. (86.4cm.) high, 51in. (129.5cm.) wide, 23in. (58.4cm.) deep

Provenance

The Collection of Martin Heckscher, Vienna, sold Christie's London, 4 May 1898, lot 92, (£250).

Lot Essay

Louis Foureau, maître in 1755.

The distinctive angle-mounts centred by Infant Hercules medallions are also found on a secrétaire by Nicolas Petit (maître in 1761) illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p.649.

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