A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND KINGWOOD PARQUETRY COMMODE À VANTAUX

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A LOUIS XV STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND KINGWOOD PARQUETRY COMMODE À VANTAUX
IN THE MANNER OF ANTOINE GAUDREAUX

With a serpentine moulded white marble top above a conforming ormolu edge and two conforming doors each applied with foliate scrolled mounts suspending a medallion depicting classical scenes, coins and foliate drapery each enclosing two quarter-panelled drawers and centering an applied female mask over a shaped apron, on ormolu cabriole legs with scroll feet headed by ram's masks, the sides with similarly applied ormolu panels--36¾in. (93.3 cm.) high, 67¼in. (170.7cm.) wide, 25½in. (64.6cm.0 deep

拍品专文

The offered lot is a copy of a commode à vantaux supplied by Antoine Gaudreaux for Louis XV for the Royal apartments at Versailles in 1739. The cabinet was specifically made to house Louis XV's collection of medals, is now in the Bibliothèque Nationale(See J. Meuvret et al., French Cabinet Makers of the Eighteenth Century, 1963, p. 59, pl. 3).