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Mathieu Criaerd, maître in 1738.
The C-couronné poinçon was a tax mark used on alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.
With its sophisticated diamond pattern parquetry and jewel-like scrolled mounts this commode is a beautiful example of the work of the celebrated ébéniste Mathieu Criaerd. Almost exclusively supplied through the marchand-mercier Thomas-Joachim Hébert, Criaerd delivered a number of masterpieces to the French Royal family.
Criaerd is probably most celebrated for a lacquered commode executed in blue and white vernis and mounted in silvered bronze, which Hébert delivered in 1742 for the bedroom of Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Mailly, at the château of Choisy, now at the Louvre (Exhibition Catalogue, 'Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art 1990-1994', Musée du Louvre 1995, No. 47; Alcouffe, No. 43). These same basic mounts also feature on the commode by Criaerd, veneered with kingwood and satinwood, which was delivered by Hébert to the Dauphin at Versailles in 1748 (D. Meyer, Le Mobilier de Versailles, Vol. I, Dijon 2002, No. 11).
The serpentine outline and the almost cartilaginous mounts of this commode are both characteristic of the oeuvre of Criaerd, as are the diamond pattern parquetry and the central cartouche formed by foliate scrolls. Similar commodes by Criaerd are illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII Siècle, 1989, p. 217, fig. B. and J. Nicolay, L'Art et La Manière Ébénistes Français, 1976, p. 126, fig. F. A related – though slightly smaller - commode by Criaerd was sold at Sotheby's London, June 25, 1982, lot 74 and another at Christie's Monaco, 13 December 1998, lot 369.
The C-couronné poinçon was a tax mark used on alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749.
With its sophisticated diamond pattern parquetry and jewel-like scrolled mounts this commode is a beautiful example of the work of the celebrated ébéniste Mathieu Criaerd. Almost exclusively supplied through the marchand-mercier Thomas-Joachim Hébert, Criaerd delivered a number of masterpieces to the French Royal family.
Criaerd is probably most celebrated for a lacquered commode executed in blue and white vernis and mounted in silvered bronze, which Hébert delivered in 1742 for the bedroom of Louis XV's mistress, Madame de Mailly, at the château of Choisy, now at the Louvre (Exhibition Catalogue, 'Nouvelles acquisitions du département des Objets d'art 1990-1994', Musée du Louvre 1995, No. 47; Alcouffe, No. 43). These same basic mounts also feature on the commode by Criaerd, veneered with kingwood and satinwood, which was delivered by Hébert to the Dauphin at Versailles in 1748 (D. Meyer, Le Mobilier de Versailles, Vol. I, Dijon 2002, No. 11).
The serpentine outline and the almost cartilaginous mounts of this commode are both characteristic of the oeuvre of Criaerd, as are the diamond pattern parquetry and the central cartouche formed by foliate scrolls. Similar commodes by Criaerd are illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII Siècle, 1989, p. 217, fig. B. and J. Nicolay, L'Art et La Manière Ébénistes Français, 1976, p. 126, fig. F. A related – though slightly smaller - commode by Criaerd was sold at Sotheby's London, June 25, 1982, lot 74 and another at Christie's Monaco, 13 December 1998, lot 369.