AFTER THE MODEL BY GUILLAUME BENEMAN, OF LOUIS XVI-STYLE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH GILT METAL-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE A VANTAUX
AFTER THE MODEL BY GUILLAUME BENEMAN, OF LOUIS XVI-STYLE, EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The eared tapering Carrara marble top above a conforming panelled oak-leaf frieze and a pair of doors applied with a Medusa mask surmounted by a plumed helmet, quivers of arrows, flags, battle axes and meandering foliage enclosing a plain interior, with panelled concave sides, the angles formed as ribbon-tied arrow clusters, above a straight apron cast with bands of entrelac, on hairy paw feet
96 cm. high x 183 cm. wide x 66 cm. deep

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Lot Essay

The present lot is a faithful copy of the commode supplied by Guillaume Beneman for Louis XVI's apartments at Compiègne in 1786. It was probably made by Sauvage for the Comte de Provence and was later adapted by Beneman under the instruction of Haurè for Louis XVI's Cabinet du Conseil at Fontainebleau, where it remains today. See J. Meuvret et.al., French Cabinet Makers of the Eighteenth Century, 1963, p. 309.

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