Details
The rectangular granite belge top above a frieze drawer centered by an ormolu mask mask of Mercury flanked by allegorical figures at the corners, over three long drawers with ormolu bail handles cast as swans, flanked by baluster-form columns with ormolu capitals
3612 in. (93 cm.) high, 5112 in. (130.5 cm.) wide, 2434 in. (63 cm.) deep
Provenance
Property of a Gentleman; Sotheby's, London, 5 July 2006, lot 215.
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Lot Essay

Although this commode is not stamped, the high quality of craftsmanship, coupled with the beautifully-figured mahogany and excellent ormolu mounts used, suggest that it was produced in the atelier of one of the leading cabinet-makers of the Empire period, such as François-Honoré-Georges Jacob, known as Jacob Desmalter, Pierre Benôit Marcion, Pierre-Antoine Bellangé or Louis-Edouard Lemarchand. This commode is closely related to another unstamped example with baluster columns and mounted with identical escutcheons and similar handles now in the Musée Carnavalet in Dijon (inv. no. MB 733), which was formerly recorded in the collection of Duc and Duchesse de Gaëte in 1822. See A. Forray-Carlier, Le Mobilier du Musée Carnavalet, Dijon, 2000, pp. 246-247, no. 92.

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