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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK AND GILT LACQUER AND VERNIS MARTIN COMMODE
AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK AND GILT LACQUER AND VERNIS MARTIN COMMODE
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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK AND GILT LACQUER AND VERNIS MARTIN COMMODE

CIRCA 1745, THE LACQUER PANELS 18TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN ORMOLU-MOUNTED CHINESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID BLACK AND GILT LACQUER AND VERNIS MARTIN COMMODE
CIRCA 1745, THE LACQUER PANELS 18TH CENTURY
With later serpentine-shaped moulded brèche violette marble top, with two drawers and sides decorated with figures and pagodas, on cabriole legs with pierced foliate sabots, with chalk inscription SL3, the back and tops of drawers lined in painted tin, the drawers lined in red-painted canvas, the apron mount replaced
34 ¼ in. (87 cm.) high; 51 ½ in. (132 cm.) wide; 26 ¼ in. (67 cm.) deep
Provenance
Marie d'Aubusson de la Feuillade (1824-1862), who married Marc René, 5th Prince de Beauvau-Craon (1816-1883), by tradition, and thence by descent
until sold from the Château de Haroué, Lorraine, Sotheby's, London, 19 May 1967, lot 219.
with Jacques Helft.
Acquired from the above by the Blaquier-Arrieta Family, December 1969.
Literature
D. Cooper, Great Family Collections, London, 1965, p. 301 (ill).

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Lot Essay

This striking lacquer commode remained in the Beauvau-Craon collection at the château de Haroué for well over a hundred years and is illustrated in Douglas Cooper's Great Family Collections. Family tradition has it that this commode came to Haroué through the marriage of Marc-René, 5th Prince de Beauvau-Craon (1816-1883) and Marie d'Aubusson de la Feuillade (1824-62) in 1840. Marie was the daughter of Augustin Pierre d'Aubusson de La Feuillade (1793-1842), an officer of the Legion of Honour, and Blanche Catherine Rouillé de Boissy (1802-1855). It was through the 5th Prince's marriage to Marie that the Princes de Beauvau became the beneficiaries of a large inheritance from Hilaire Rouilly, marquis de Boissy (1765-1840), Marie's maternal grandfather. It is tempting to speculate that this commode could have originated, and been inherited from, the de Boissy collection.

A suite of Louis XVI giltwood seat furniture by Claude Chevigny which were also thought to enter the Beauvau-Craon collection at Haroué via Marie d'Aubusson de la Feuillade were sold Christie's, London, 10 December 2004, lot 360 (£408,450 including premium).

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