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A Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted mahogany, marquetry and parquetry commode
A Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted mahogany, marquetry and parquetry commode

AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, CIRCA 1890

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A Louis XVI style ormolu-mounted mahogany, marquetry and parquetry commode
After the model by Jean-Henri Riesener, Circa 1890
The demi-lune shaped white marble top above a conforming egg-and-dart-moulded cornice and a pair of drawers headed by an Apollo mask, with central panel inlaid sans traverse with a ewer and basket of fruit and flowers, above a fleur-de-lys-studded globe and cornucopiae, flanked to each side by a foliate parquetry panel headed with a floral swag, above putti emblematic of Justice and Temperance, each side with a parquetry-inlaid cupboard door hung with floral swags and ribbon-suspended military trophies, the angles mounted with figures emblematic of Mars, Hercules, Temperance and Prudence, on tapering acanthus-mounted feet
38½in. (97.8cm.) high; 86in. (218.5cm.) wide; 31½in. (80cm.) deep

拍品專文

The design of the present commode is based on the original model executed by Jean-Henri Riesener in 1775 and supplied to Louis XVI as a replacement for the sumptuous commode by Gaudreaux and Caffièri (supplied in 1739) in the Chambre du Roi at Versailles. The original commode is now in the Musée Condé at Chantilly.

Another example of this model commode sold Christie's East, 14 October 1999, lot 410 ($46,000).