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A ROYAL LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED BOIS SATINE COMMODE 'A LA GRECQUE'
ATTRIBUTED TO SIMON OEBEN CIRCA 1760-65
The shaped and moulded rouge de Flandres marble top above a moulded frieze with three short drawers, over two long drawers with a shaped apron, on cabriole legs terminating in sabots, the underside of the marble with stencilled inventory mark of crowned 'F No 974' and pen inscription '‘DU N°24.I.C’ de la Chapelle', the substrate with pen inscription 'DU N°24.I.Chambre', the backboard stencilled with crowned 'F No 976'
34 1/2 in. (88 cm.) high; 58 in. (147 cm.) wide; 25 1/2 in. (65 cm.)
Provenance
Almost certainly delivered to Étienne François, Marquis de Stainville, duc de Choiseul at the château de Chanteloup circa 1760-65.
Recorded in the 1786 inventory of the château de Fontainebleau in the bedroom of the Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France (1781-89).
Recorded in the 1787 inventory of the château de Fontainebleau in the bedroom of Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, Duchess of Orléans (1753-1821).
With Galerie Etienne Levy, Paris in 1991.
Anonymous sale, Sotheby's Monaco, 26-27 February 1992, lot 220.
Literature
M. Thomas, Chanteloup. Un moment de grâce autour du duc de Choiseul, Paris, 2007, pp. 248-250.
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