A NEAR PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND BOIS DE BOUT MARQUETRY COMMODES

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ID 1538780
Los 265 | A NEAR PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND BOIS DE BOUT MARQUETRY COMMODES
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$ 15 000 – 25 000
A NEAR PAIR OF LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND BOIS DE BOUT MARQUETRY COMMODES
MID-18TH CENTURY, LARGELY REVENEERED AND REMOUNTED
Each of bombé form, the pink and grey marble top above two long drawers decorated sans traverse and mounted with a large rocaille cartouche, on cabriole legs, one stamped 'L. PERIDIEZ' twice and 'JME' once, the other stamped 'L. PERIDIEZ JME', one drawer side inscribed '51554' and '70951', one marble inscribed 'FOY', the other inscribed '70951', stenciled '228', applied with an old Chenue transport label with a faint inscription, and bearing a purple customs stamp, variations to construction and marbles
34 ½ in. (88 cm.) high, 41 ½ in. (105.5 cm.) wide, 24 in. (61 cm.) deep




Provenance

Madame Jacques Balsan, née Consuelo Vanderbilt and formerly Consuelo Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (1877-1964).
With French & Co., New York.
Thelma Chrysler Foy, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 22-23 May 1959, lots 729 and 730.
Acquired by Annie Laurie Aitken (1900-1984) and Russell Barnett Aitken (1910-2002) from the above.



Literature

C. Packer, Paris Furniture by the Master Ebénistes, Newport, 1956, fig. 79B.
F. Lewis Hinckley, A Directory of Antique French Furniture: 1735-1800, New York, 1967, p. 52.



Exhibited

San Francisco, The de Young Museum (according to the 1959 Thelma Chrysler Foy Parke-Bernet catalogue).
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