A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD AND END-CUT MARQUETRY COMMODE

细节

A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, TULIPWOOD AND END-CUT MARQUETRY COMMODE
BY JACQUES DUBOIS

Decorated overall with flowers, the moulded serpentine-fronted brèche d'Alep marble top above two long drawers decorated sans traverse with ormolu borders, the waved sides with conforming decoration, between keeled angles headed by pierced clasps cast with acanthus scrolls and above a waved frieze, on cabriole legs with scrolled sabots, stamped I. DUBOIS, all the mounts, except the sabots and right-hand side borders struck with C couronné poinçon, the marble repaired
36in. (92cm.) wide; 34in. (86.5cm.) high; 19¾in. (50cm.) deep

来源

Anonymous sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24-25 March 1922, lot 285 (illustrated)
M. Lowenstein, sold Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 17 December 1935, lot 136 (sold to M. Lacoste for 17,050 francs)

出版

J. Nicolay, L'Art et la Manière des Maîtres-Ebénistes Français du XVIIIème siècle, Tome 1, Paris, 1956, p.157, figure Q.

拍品专文

Jacques Dubois, maître in 1742

The C couronné poinçon was a tax mark employed on any alloy containing copper between March 1745 and February 1749

The pair of commodes of closely related form, supplied by Dubois in 1769 for the Gelbe Appartements of the Residenz, Munich is discussed in G. Hojer and H. Ottomeyer, Die Möbel de Residenz München, Munich , 1995, vol. I,no. 74, pp. 265-6