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A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, CHINESE LACQUER AND VERNIS MARTIN COMMODE AND PAIR OF ENCOIGNURES

Lot 36
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Lot 36 | A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, CHINESE LACQUER AND VERNIS MARTIN COMMODE AND PAIR OF ENCOIGNURES
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£ 300 000 – 500 000
A LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, CHINESE LACQUER AND VERNIS MARTIN COMMODE AND PAIR OF ENCOIGNURES
ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE GARNIER, CIRCA 1765
The commode with rectangular moulded rouge griotte marble top above a cabochon frieze, above two drawers decorated with flowers and butterflies with ribbon-tied laurel wreath ring handles, flanked by stop-fluted pilasters headed by lion masks, the sides decorated with mountainous landscapes, the apron with a satyr mask issuing tree branches, on spirally-fluted feet, with a rectangular blue-bordered label printed 'C.I.N.O.A. INTERNATIONAL ART TREASURES EXHIBITION VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM 1962 EXHIBIT NO.' numbered '150', with several circular French customs ink marks, the underside of the marble with a rectangular paper label printed 'J. CHENUE PACKER 25 MONMOUTH STREET SHAFTESBURY AVENUE LONDON, W.C. 2' inscribed 'International Art Treasure Exhibition Victoria & Albert Museum (Mon Aveline)', the encoignures conformingly decorated, each with a circular French customs ink stamp and with a rectangular paper label inscribed 'No 11 a pair with marble tops', one of the encoignures with a paper label numbered '74393', the three central mounts to the commode possibly replaced
The commode: 29 ¼ in. (89 cm.) high; 43 ¾ in. (132.5 cm.) wide; 20 in. (60.5 cm.) deep
The encoignures: 29 ¼ in. (89 cm.) high; 26 ¾ in. (81 cm.) wide; 17 in. (51.5 cm.) deep




Provenance

Henri Louis Bischoffsheim (1829-1908), Bute House, South Audley Street, London after 1872;
By descent to his daughter Amelia Catherine, Lady FitzGerald (1858-1947), wife of Sir Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Bt. and 20th Knight of Kerry (1844-1916);
By descent to their son, Major Sir John FitzGerald, 3rd Bt. and 21st Knight of Kerry, M.C. (1884-1957);
Christie's London, 8 December 1949, lot 108 (encoignures), and 24 November 1955, lot 47 (commode).
With Galerie Aveline, Paris.
Christie's London, 7 December 2006, lot 130.
With Galerie Aveline, Paris.
Hôtel Lambert, Une Collection Princière, Volume I: Chefs-d’oeuvre; Sotheby’s, Paris, 11 October 2022, lot 67.



Literature

J. Cornforth, London Interiors from the Archives of Country Life, London 2000, p. 99, 101.
C. Huchet de Quénetain, Pierre Garnier, Paris, 2003, cat. 193, p. 131.



Exhibited

International Art Treasures Exhibition, presented by C.I.N.O.A. (the International Confederation of Art Dealers), Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 1962, no. 150.
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