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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND MAHOGANY COMMODE
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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND MAHOGANY COMMODE

AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS LELEU, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND MAHOGANY COMMODE
AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-FRANÇOIS LELEU, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY
The 'D'-shaped brèche violette marble top above a panelled scrolling vine frieze fitted with a central drawer, above two quarter-veneered drawers sans traverse with reeded wreath handles, with similarly decorated sides, the fluted angles cast with oak and acanthus clasps, on circular tapering legs ending in leaf-wrapped sabots
37 in. (94 cm.) high; 60 in. (153 cm.) wide; 25¼ in. (65 cm.) deep
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拍品专文

A pupil and later collaborator with Jean-François Oeben, Jean-François Leleu became maître on the latter's death in 1763. His work can be divided into two concurrent but distinct styles: the first, owing more to the legacy of Oeben, being of large, solid forms, more noble in style; the second, although retaining the clean, definite lines of the first, being an exercise in elegance and understatement. It is this second style for which Leleu is chiefly remembered and which the present commode (the original now at Versailles), with its lightly bombé form and restrained frieze mounts, is a principal example.