ID 1345075
Lot 108 | A PAIR OF LATE LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED PLUM-PUDDING MAHOGANY COMMODES A VANTAUX
Estimate value
$ 100 000 – 150 000
BY GODEFROY DESTER, CIRCA 1780
Each with a rectangular veined white marble top with rounded corners above a long frieze drawer faced as three drawers with central cartouche and laurel-cast escutcheon above two doors faced as three panels, one of the doors hinged and in two sections, opening to three long drawers, the angles with fluted column uprights on toupie feet, one stamped G. DESTER JME to proper left upper corner of carcase, the other JME and indistinctly DE..., one stamped twice with a crown over an R., the other stamped three times with a crown over A.B.M. and CR
36 ¾ in. (93.5 cm.) high, 52 ¾ in. (134 cm.) wide, 22 ¼ in. (56.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
Algernon Bertam Mitford and Lady Clementine Gertrude Helen Ogilvy.
Thence by descent, Rt. Hon. Lord Redesdale, D.S.O., R.N.; Sotheby's, London, 12 December 1958, lot 199.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Monaco, 20 June 1992, lot 67.
Acquired from Partridge, London.
| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
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| Medium: | Mahogany, Gold, Wood |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Dressers |
| Applied technique: | Ormolu |
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| Medium: | Mahogany, Gold, Wood |
| Historical era: | Period of Louis XVI |
| Place of origin: | Western Europe, France, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Furniture and Lamps, Dressers |
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