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Lot Essay
The C-couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed between March 1745 and February 1749 on any alloy containing copper.
The unusual format of this commode, with its neatly fitted secretaire drawer above a slide, in combination with the distinctive bois de bout and singerie marquetry, leads to the conclusion that it may have been a special commission from a marchand mercier.
The fluid nature of the mounts in combination with the distinctive bois de bout makes an attribution possible to Jacques Dubois, one of the foremost ébénistes of the Louis XV period, who is known to have worked for the marchand Bertin and the marchand ébéniste Pierre Migeon, and undertook several commissions for foreign clients, notably the celebrated corner cupboard now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, originally supplied to Count Branicki, Warsaw.
A commode by Dubois with bois de bout marquetry and related central ormolu cartouche is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 271.
The unusual format of this commode, with its neatly fitted secretaire drawer above a slide, in combination with the distinctive bois de bout and singerie marquetry, leads to the conclusion that it may have been a special commission from a marchand mercier.
The fluid nature of the mounts in combination with the distinctive bois de bout makes an attribution possible to Jacques Dubois, one of the foremost ébénistes of the Louis XV period, who is known to have worked for the marchand Bertin and the marchand ébéniste Pierre Migeon, and undertook several commissions for foreign clients, notably the celebrated corner cupboard now in the J. Paul Getty Museum, originally supplied to Count Branicki, Warsaw.
A commode by Dubois with bois de bout marquetry and related central ormolu cartouche is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 271.