A FINE LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND HAREWOOD MARQUETRY ARMORIAL GRAND COMMODE LATE 19TH CENTURY, BY FRANÇOIS LINKE 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 , etched on corner mount "F. Linke"-- 38 in. (95 cm.) high, 81 in. (202.5 cm.) wide, 32¾ in. (81 cm.) deep The commode offered in this lot is a copy of the commode Jean-Henri Riesner executed in 1775 and delivered to Louis XV for his private apartments at Versailles and now is in the Musée de Condé, Chantilly (see Hachette, French Cabinet-makers of the Eighteenth Century , 1963, p. 199, fig. 3) cf. a similar commode was sold in these rooms on 2 November 1989, lot 345
A FINE LOUIS XVI STYLE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND HAREWOOD MARQUETRY ARMORIAL GRAND COMMODE LATE 19TH CENTURY, BY FRANÇOIS LINKE 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 , etched on corner mount "F. Linke"-- 38 in. (95 cm.) high, 81 in. (202.5 cm.) wide, 32¾ in. (81 cm.) deep The commode offered in this lot is a copy of the commode Jean-Henri Riesner executed in 1775 and delivered to Louis XV for his private apartments at Versailles and now is in the Musée de Condé, Chantilly (see Hachette, French Cabinet-makers of the Eighteenth Century , 1963, p. 199, fig. 3) cf. a similar commode was sold in these rooms on 2 November 1989, lot 345
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