BY JEAN-JOSEPH CHAPUIS, CIRCA 1800

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE
BY JEAN-JOSEPH CHAPUIS, CIRCA 1800
The rectangular top above a frieze drawer centred by a maiden within laurel leaves, above two doors enclosing a plain interior with an open shelf, flanked by turned columns, stamped twice 'CHAPUIS', with a paper label printed 'De Hoogwelgeboren Vrouwe Douarière A. E. Baronesse van Hardenbroek van Lockhorst, geboren Meder, gewoond hebbende te Bilthoven'
34 in. (86 cm.) high; 28½ in. (72 cm.) wide; 21½ in. (54 cm.) deep

Provenance

Baroness van Hardenbroek van Lockhorst, Bilthoven, Holland.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

This elegant commode was executed by the celebrated Brussels cabinet maker Jean-Joseph Chapuis (1765-1864). The stamp CHAPUIS which appears on the present lot had previously been attributed to the French cabinet maker Claude Chapuis but the discovery of this stamp used as a signature on a legal document attests that this stamp is the one of his Belgian counterpart (see D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le mobilier français du XIXe siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 118). Among his numerous commissions, Jean-Joseph Chapuis supplied a wide variety of pieces to the Château de Laeken from 1806 onwards.

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