A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY COMMODE

Lot 176
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Lot 176 | A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY COMMODE
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$ 12 000 – 18 000
A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY COMMODE

BY PIERRE DENIZOT, CIRCA 1770

With breakfront breccia marble top above three short frieze drawers inlaid with guilloché enclosing two long drawers inlaid sans traverse within Vitruvian scroll and bellflower borders, cabriole legs mounted with bellflower and acanthus-cast chutes continuing to foliate scroll sabots, right frieze drawer with paper label inscribed C 8250 and P. Lehman, central frieze drawer with label inscribed C 949 and PL, top drawer with dealer's typed label and inventory number 25564, marble with printed paper label Envoi du Duveen Brothers/Place Vendme 20 Paris and chalk numbers 2818 and 25564, stamped 'P. DENIZOT' three times, 'JME' twice, also stamped indistinctly, possibly 'L. BOUDIN' in his capacity as a retailer, several of the the mounts stamped 'H X', probably at the time when they were regilt in the 19th century

36 in. (90.5 cm.) high, 51 in. (129.5 cm.) wide, 23 ¼ in. (59 cm.) deep





Provenance

Duveen Brothers, Paris.

Philip Lehman (1861-1947).

By descent to his daughter Pauline Lehman Ickelheimer (b.1886).

Thence by descent until sold; Christie's, New York, 14 November 1985, lot 125.



Literature

P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIème Siècle, Paris, 1989, pp. 254-5, fig. A.
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