拍品专文
The offered lot is a copy of a commode supplied by Guillaume Benneman for Louis XVI's apartments at Compiègne in 1786. J. Meuvret et al., French Cabinet Makers of the Eighteenth Century 1963, p. 309, pl. 3
细节
A LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY CONSOLE DESSERTE
LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF G. BENNEMAN
With an eared rectangular molded D-shaped white marble top above a conforming case fitted with a central drawer applied with a crisply cast foliate encrusted armorial trophy flanked by similarly applied hinged drawers over a central hinged door applied with similarly cast ribbon-tied bouquets centering a torch flanked by two pierced galleried open white marble shelves backed by mirrored plates above a molding applied with leaf-tips, on turned tapering stop-fluted legs with foliate cast toupie feet--37¾in. (96cm.) high, 78¼in. (199cm.) wide, 28in. (71cm.) deep
LATE 19TH CENTURY, IN THE MANNER OF G. BENNEMAN
With an eared rectangular molded D-shaped white marble top above a conforming case fitted with a central drawer applied with a crisply cast foliate encrusted armorial trophy flanked by similarly applied hinged drawers over a central hinged door applied with similarly cast ribbon-tied bouquets centering a torch flanked by two pierced galleried open white marble shelves backed by mirrored plates above a molding applied with leaf-tips, on turned tapering stop-fluted legs with foliate cast toupie feet--37¾in. (96cm.) high, 78¼in. (199cm.) wide, 28in. (71cm.) deep