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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE, TULIPWOOD AND SYCAMORE SMALL BOMBÉ COMMODE

BY LECLERE, CIRCA 1770

Details

A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE, TULIPWOOD AND SYCAMORE SMALL BOMBÉ COMMODE
BY LECLERE, CIRCA 1770
With D-shaped brown marble top above a panelled frieze mounted with entrelacs and fitted with a drawer, above two drawers decorated sans traverse and mounted with a single vase, the rounded angles with simulated fluting headed by swagged clasps, on slightly cabriole legs terminating in paw feet, stamped 'I Leclere' and 'EHB', with a label inscribed '58', with a chalk inscription 'E5004 SOTHS' and with a marble top inscribed '35D', the back legs probably replaced
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 26¾ in. (68 cm.) wide; and 15¾ in. (40 cm.) deep

Provenance

Retailed by Edward Holmes Baldock in the second quarter of the 19th century.
The Orme Wilson Collection.
The René Fribourg Collection, VII, part 2, sold Sotheby's London, 17-18 October 1963, lot 803 (£6,500).

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Lot Essay

Jacques-Antoine Leclere, maître in 1779.

The 'EHB' brand is that of the London entrepreneur marchand-mercier and dealer Edward Holmes Baldock (1777-1845) who supplied so many of the great early nineteenth century English collectors, particularly George IV the Duke of Northumberland, George Byng and the 5th Duke of Buccleuch and 7th Duke of Queensberry.

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