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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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In good overall condition, with a clean, complete well-maintained appearance. With scattered age and construction cracks, the most prominent vertically to the sides, but not extensive. The veneers with scattered fraying, lifting, and minor cracks with minor areas of losses and signs of infill and restorations, also not extensive. The ormolu with some minor surface scratches, casting flaws, verdigris and rubbing, as to be expected, some of the handles with the cursive letters S J incised or cast at their backs. The drawer interiors with a polished finish. Overall a well-made piece of furniture, the mahogany with very nice figuring, structurally sound and ready to use.