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).
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).