AFTER THE MODEL DESIGNED BY THE SLODTZ BROTHERS AND EXECUTED BY ANTOINE GAUDREAUX, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD, KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY COMMODE A VANTAUX
AFTER THE MODEL DESIGNED BY THE SLODTZ BROTHERS AND EXECUTED BY ANTOINE GAUDREAUX, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The serpentine white marble top above a conforming case set with two cupboard doors each decorated with lozenge parquetry and centered by an oval medallion within a ribbon-tied floral frame, on ram-headed cabriole legs
39 ½ in. (93 cm.) high, 67 ½ in. (172 cm.) wide, 25 ½ in. (65.5 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

This commode is based on the commode médallier by Antoine Gaudreaux (d. 1746), so called because it contained a set of the famous series of medals known as the medallic history of Louis XIV and Louis XV, which included portraits of the leading crowned heads of Europe. It was delivered on 10 January 1739 for the Cabinet aux tableaux in Louis XV's new apartments at Versailles.

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