ID 1027741
Lot 371 | A LOUIS XIV ORMOLU-MOUNTED PADOUK AND SATINWOOD COMMODE
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
CIRCA 1715, INCORPORATING LATER ELEMENTS
The molded red marble top above an egg-and-dart frieze over two cupboard doors enclosing four shelves and decorated with a border of cartouche angles and double canted by overlapping lozenges, surrounding a further frame decorated with stylized foliate motifs and centered by a scrolling platform hanging from a ribbon beneath a winged putto bearing a flower, the escutcheon enriched on each side by shells, the sides with ebony-filleted border centered by an espagnolette mask above a drop handle, above a shell apron on bracket feet decorated with rosettes and a scrolling acanthus leaf, remains of two labels inscribed in pencil 'Roger(?)..'
33 ½ in. (85 cm.) high, 47 in. (120 cm.) wide, 25 ½ in. (64 cm.) deep
Provenance
The Collection of the Rothschild family.
By descent to the present owners.
Literature
C. de Nicolay-Mazery, Private Houses of France, Paris, 2014, p. 294
| Artist: | André-Charles Boulle (1642 - 1732) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Gold, Wood |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XIV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Dressers, Cupboards |
| Artist: | André-Charles Boulle (1642 - 1732) |
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| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
| Medium: | Gold, Wood |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XIV |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Dressers, Cupboards |
| Address of auction |
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