Lot Details
Lot 491
Pair of Louis XV Style Ormolu-Mounted Black-Painted Commodes
After Charles Cressent
Each serpentine brèche d'Alep marble top above a bombé case fitted with two drawers with rocaille and floral garland mounts, scrolling foliate handles and palm fronds, raised on cabriole legs ending in lion-paw feet. Height 36 inches (91.5 cm), width 57 1/2 inches (146 cm), depth 27 inches (68.6 cm).
Provenance:
Jean Philippe Hussard Antiques, Paris.
These commodes are after similar models by one of the most important French ébénistes of the second quarter of the 18th century, Charles Cressent (1685-1768). A group of several similar models with palm frond and dragon mounts are identified as les commodes à palmes croisés et dragonsby Alexandre Pradère, Charles Cressent, Dijon, 2003, p. 154.
C Property from a Palm Beach Private Collection
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