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A FINE FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE A VANTAUX
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A FINE FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE A VANTAUX

AFTER THE MODEL BY GUILLAUME BENNEMAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY

已结束2012年3月15日

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A FINE FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE A VANTAUX
AFTER THE MODEL BY GUILLAUME BENNEMAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Of trapezoid form, the thick white marble top above a panelled frieze with trailing oak leaf mount, fronted by a pair of drawers, above a pair of elliptically panelled doors heavily mounted with trophies of War and acanthus rosettes, the interior fitted with six trays, with panelled concave sides and ribbon-bound arrow-form front angles, on massive acanthus-mounted hairy paw feet, the lockplate engraved DUVIVIER PARIS 76. FG ST. ANTOINE', the backboards chalked 'Avenue des champs Elysee M Soum[ier ...] le 13 A'
37¾ in. (96 cm.) high; 76 in. (193 cm.) wide; 28½ in. (72.5 cm.) deep

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The present lot is a faithful copy of the commode supplied by Guillaume Benneman for Louis XVI's apartments at Compiègne in 1786. It was probably made by Sauvage for the Comte de Provence and was later adapted by Benneman under the instruction of Hauré for Louis XVI's Cabinet du Conseil at Fontainebleau, where it remains today. (see J. Meuvret et al., French Cabinet Makers of the Eighteenth Century, 1963, p. 309).

Copied in widely varying degrees of quality throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the present example exhibits a high level of workmanship as becoming of a celebrated Parisian Belle Époque ébéniste such as François Linke who made the model under Index Number 775.