A French ormolu-mounted, walnut crossbanded, ivory and marquetry-inlaid commode

IN THE TRANSITIONAL STYLE, AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN GEORGES SCHLICHTIG

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A French ormolu-mounted, walnut crossbanded, ivory and marquetry-inlaid commode
In the Transitional Style, After the model by Jean Georges Schlichtig
The grey marble top of breakfront outline and with a moulded edge, above three frieze drawers and a pair of further drawers inlaid sans traverse with an architecturally decorated pavilion to the centre and couples to the left and right side, between canted angles, the sides also decorated with figural scenes, on square tapering shaped legs and foliate-cast sabots
50½ in. (128 cm.) wide; 36¾ in. (93.5 cm.) high; 23¼ in. (59 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The commode, with figures dressed in the elegant fashion illustrated in La Galerie des modes et costumes franais, 1778, is copied from one in the Camando collection presented to the Louvre and bearing the stamp of Jean Georges Schlichtig (maître 1765) (see F. de Salverte, Les Ebenistes du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris 1989, p. 792).

A pair of virtually identical commodes were sold at Christie's, New York, 11 September 1997, lot 382.

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