拍品 87
87
A FRENCH GILT-METAL MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE, after the model by Guillaume Beneman, with a shaped white marble top above a pair of drawers and a pair of cupboard doors centred with military trophies, the oval shield raised with a Medusa mask, flanked by ribbon-tied arrow columns with concave-shaped panelled sides, the back with paper labels numbered 1397 and 32349 on four hairy claw feet

细节
A FRENCH GILT-METAL MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE, after the model by Guillaume Beneman, with a shaped white marble top above a pair of drawers and a pair of cupboard doors centred with military trophies, the oval shield raised with a Medusa mask, flanked by ribbon-tied arrow columns with concave-shaped panelled sides, the back with paper labels numbered 1397 and 32349 on four hairy claw feet
71½in. (181.7cm.) wide; 37in. (94cm.) high; 28½in. (72.5cm.) deep

拍品专文

The present commode is a copy of the original supplied by Guillaume Beneman (Maître 1785) for the Cabinet de Conseil at the Château of Compiègne. It is now at Fontainbleau. Another copy was sold in these Rooms on 15 February, 1990, lot 93.