A Louis XVI ormolu-mounted tulipwood, amaranth and parquetry demilune commode

BY FIDELYS SCHEY

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A Louis XVI ormolu-mounted tulipwood, amaranth and parquetry demilune commode
By Fidelys Schey
The moulded grey bardiglio marble top above a lozenge-inlaid frieze with a central drawer above two drawers inlaid sans traverse with a central oval lozenge-inlaid panel within chequer-banded lines, flanked by two doors conformingly decorated, each enclosing a plain interior with three shelves, on turned tapering legs, stamped F. SCHEY restorations, the marble repaired
85cm. high x 113cm. wide x 52cm. deep

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Fidelys Schey, maître in 1777.

Fidelys Schey hailed from the Duchy of Baden and was one of the many immigrant craftsmen who was established in the rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine. He enjoyed a certain reputation and he supplied several games tables to the château de Fontainebleau in 1786.
A related commode, with similar geometric banding and an arrangement of veneers, is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 785.

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