A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY COMMODE

CIRCA 1760

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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY COMMODE
CIRCA 1760
The shaped brèche d'Alep marble top above three interlocking small frieze drawers and two larger drawers, on cabriole legs and acanthus and scroll-cast sabots, bearing a paper label typed 'Louis XVI Commode. from Collection of Alfred Montgomery, Esq.,' and bearing paper labels inscribed in ink '6862' and stencilled multiple times in black in '6862', with multiple numbers inscribed to underside of marble, some mounts later
34 in. (86 cm.) high, 44 in. (112 cm.) wide, 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

Provenance

By repute, Alfred Montgomery, Esq.

Lot Essay

Alfred Montgomery (1814-1896), second son of Sir Henry Conyngham Montgomery, 1st Bt., married, in 1842, Fanny Charlotte, eldest daughter of George Wyndham, 1st Lord Leconfield. A commissioner of the Inland Revenue, he was a social figure of some importance. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt characterised him as 'quite the last of the old d'Orsay set in London'. A friend of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, described him as 'a man of fashion, dining out to the end'. His elder daughter, Edith, married George Finch, of Burley on the Hill, Rutland, while her sister Sibyl was the wife of John, 9th Marquess of Queensberry. Their father's collection was sold posthumously at Robinson's in 1896.

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