CIRCA 1770

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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND AMARANTH MARQUETRY COMMODE
CIRCA 1770
The shaped breccia marble top above a frieze drawer mounted with rosette-filled guilloche, above two further drawers inlaid sans traverse with a central oval medallion depicting an Ottoman scene within a ribbon-tied ormolu frame, flanked by trellis and quatrefoil parquetry panels, the sides similarly inlaid, on cabriole legs and sabots
34 ¼ in. (87 cm.) high; 45 ¼ in. (115 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This superb transitional commode is one of two commodes of near identical design, both with the same central oval landscape marquetry panel as well as sharing the same robust oval mount to frame it. Perhaps the commodes’ most distinctive feature is the diaper-pattern ground; similar treatments were employed by some of the greatest ébénistes of the later 18th century, such as Jean-François Leleu (maître 1764), Jean-Henri Riesner (maître 1768) and Martin Carlin (maître 1766). The closest comparison can be drawn with the work of Carlin who used a closely related diaper-pattern inlaid ground, similarly framed with ormolu borders to decorate a monumental commode which is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIII Siècle, Paris, 1989, p.163, and which was subsequently sold, Collection Djahanguir Riahi, Christie’s, London, 6 December 2012, lot 5; the near identical unsigned commode was sold Poulain le Fur, Paris, 9 December 1999, lot 160.

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