A Louis XVI-style ormolu-mounted parquetry and marquetry commode

AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER, CIRCA 1900

细节
A Louis XVI-style ormolu-mounted parquetry and marquetry commode
After the model by Jean-Henri Riesener, Circa 1900
The white marble top above an egg-and-dart-cast frieze and a pair of drawers headed by a Minerva mask above laurel branches, with central panel inlaid sans traverse with a marquetry of ewer and basket of fruit and flowers, above a fleur de lys-studded globe supported on crossed cornucopiae and oak branches, flanked to each side by a foliate parquetry panel headed with floral swag, above putti emblematic of Justice and Temperance, the rounded sides each with a parquetry-inlaid cupboard door hung with floral swags and ribbon-suspended military trophies, the angles mounted with figures emblematic of Mars, Hercules, Temperance and Prudence, on square tapering acanthus-mounted feet
38in. (96.5cm.) high; 79in. (202cm.) wide; 32in. (81.2cm.) deep
Riesener, J.-H. (after)

拍品专文

The design of the present commode is based on an original model executed by Jean-Henri Riesener (matre 1768) in 1775 and supplied to Louis XVI as a replacement for the sumptuous commode by Gaudreaux and Caffiri (supplied in 1739) in the Chambre du Roi at Versailles. The original commode is now in the Muse Cond at Chantilly.