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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY MARQUETRY ARMORIAL COMMODE

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A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY MARQUETRY ARMORIAL COMMODE

With moulded demi-lune breakfront white and grey marble top above a conforming case fitted centrally with two drawers inlaid sans traverse depicting a fruit-filled basket and flower-filled ewer applied at the crest with a female mask issuing rays surrounded by a berried laurel flanked by inlaid trellis devices applied with a hemisphere bearing the royal arms of France and cornucopia issuing an allegory of the fruits of the sea and an armorial trophy flanked by similarly inlaid doors, inlaid with trellis devices and applied with armorial trophies suspended by ribbon-ties divided by ormolu-moulded allegorical figures, on square tapering legs with leaf-tip form caps headed by ormolu paterae--38¼in. (97cm.) high, 79½in. (201.3cm.) wide, 32.14in. ( 82.5cm.) deep

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This commode is a copy of the model Jean-Henri Risener executed in 1755 and delivered to Louis XV for his private apartments at Versailles, now in the Musée de Condé, Chantilly(See J. Meuvret, French Cabinet Makers of the Eighteenth Century,, 1963, p. 199, fig. 3).