Lot 37
37
A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY AND TORTOISESHELL 'BOULLE' MARQUETRY COMMODE**
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A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY AND TORTOISESHELL 'BOULLE' MARQUETRY COMMODE**

CIRCA 1720

Details
A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID EBONY AND TORTOISESHELL 'BOULLE' MARQUETRY COMMODE**
CIRCA 1720
The rectangular top with rounded corners inlaid overall with figures, animals and grotesques, all within scrolling architectural and vegetal framework, the sides similarly inlaid, with three walnut-lined drawers, raised on later hoof and lion-paw sabot feet, the mounts formerly lacquered
31¼ in. (79.5 cm.) high, 46½ in. (118 cm.) wide, 26¼ in. (66.5 cm.) deep
Special notice
No sales tax is due on the purchase price of this lot if it is picked up or delivered in the State of New York.
Sale room notice
With the stencilled numbers '17959' and the provenance should read 'Seligman, 26 October, 1933 and with French and Co., New York, 1944.'

Lot Essay

There is a commode dating to the same period illustrated on pages 649-651 of The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Furniture II by Peter Hughes. The overall form is closely related and the première-partie and contra-partie Bérainesque top and side panels are almost identical except for the central scene to the top, which in the current example features a figure holding a bird in one hand and a bow in the other.

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