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Lot Essay
Martin Carlin, maître in 1766.
The distinctive flower-filled trellis parquetry of this compact commode places it within a group of commodes by Carlin with closely related parquetry and similar mounts. Perhaps the closest example is a similarly compact commode, formerly in the collection of Robert Goelet of New York and Champ Soleil, Newport, Rhode Island, sold in these Rooms, 26 April 1994, lot 304 ($90,000 exc. premium), which also features the same distinctive apron mount incorporating a pineapple.
Other examples of breakfront form, with the central panel featuring the same parquetry, include an example sold from the collection of Madame de Polès, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22 June 1927, lot 295, and an example, formerly in the collections of Buffon and Achille Seillière, sold Christie's London, 4 December 1980, lot 74 (subsequently with Bernard Steinitz, Paris).
The distinctive flower-filled trellis parquetry of this compact commode places it within a group of commodes by Carlin with closely related parquetry and similar mounts. Perhaps the closest example is a similarly compact commode, formerly in the collection of Robert Goelet of New York and Champ Soleil, Newport, Rhode Island, sold in these Rooms, 26 April 1994, lot 304 ($90,000 exc. premium), which also features the same distinctive apron mount incorporating a pineapple.
Other examples of breakfront form, with the central panel featuring the same parquetry, include an example sold from the collection of Madame de Polès, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 22 June 1927, lot 295, and an example, formerly in the collections of Buffon and Achille Seillière, sold Christie's London, 4 December 1980, lot 74 (subsequently with Bernard Steinitz, Paris).