A LOUIS XV/XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY COMMODE
PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE ESTATE OF RAYMOND H. WEILL (LOT 723)
A LOUIS XV/XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY COMMODE

CIRCA 1770, STAMPED G. DESTER

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A LOUIS XV/XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY COMMODE
Circa 1770, stamped G. DESTER
The breakfronted grey-veined white marble top above a flower and guilloche-cast conforming frieze, above a pair of drawers decorated sans traverse with quatrefoil parquetry, the sides similarly decorated, on cabriole legs terminating in cast paw sabots, with paper shippers' label inscribed in pencil 'Wildenstein', lacking right leg angle mount
37in. (94cm.) high, 38in. (96.5cm.) wide, (49.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Godefroy Dester, maître in 1774.

Virtually identical examples of this commode also stamped by Dester but with pink and grey marble tops respectively, were sold from the Rothschild Collection, Christie's London, 26 November 1970, lot 100, and from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin N. Groves, Christie's New York, 15 October 1988, lot 108 ($49,500).

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