ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE ROUSSEL, CIRCA 1770

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A LOUIS XVI KINGWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY PETITE COMMODE
Attributed to Pierre Roussel, circa 1770
The hinged top enclosing a well with a brass gallery above two drawers, on associated english castors, losses, with a paper label to reverse 'SITTING ROOM'
30 in. (76 cm.) high; 25 in. (63.5 m.) wide; 16½ in. (42 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The French work-table, with trompe l'oeil fluted columnar corners, has a hinged and china-railed top concealing a compartment, (table en chiffoniere or table a ouvrage en coffret). Its flowered lozenge mosaics, recalling Rome's Venus temple, correspond to those adopted for a similarly fluted desk-topped table bearing the maitre ebeniste's stamp of Pierre Roussel (d.1782). The table can be seen in a photograph of The State Dressing Room, in Guide to Capesthorne, 1982, p.26. Pierre Roussel, maitre 1745.

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