A Régence style gilt bronze mounted kingwood and fruitwood trellis parquetry commode known as "commode à pipée des oiseaux", Paris, late 19th century, after the celebrated model by Charles Cressent

surmounted by a brèche d'Alep marble top, and fitted with two long drawers

A. Pradère, Charles Cressent sculpteur, ébéniste du Régent, 2003, Dijon, p.60

Sir Anthony Blunt, The James A. De Rothschild Collection at Waddeson Manor, vol. I, 1974, p. 201. 

Charles Cressent (1685-1767) is indisputably the most representative craftsman of the Régence period when fashion started to turn to furniture finished with relatively simple wood veneers, but fitted with ormolu mounts of  increasing sculptural quality and splendour.  In this arena Cressent stood alone, his early training as a sculptor being more than evident in the originality and quality of the mounts which he produced. He became master sculptor in 1719 and a member of the Academy of Saint-Luc. He is recorded as both sculpteur and ébéniste to the Duc d'Orléans, and he was constantly in difficulties with the guild of fondeurs and doreurs because, in contravention of the guild rules, he chased and gilded bronzes in his own workshop.  In many instances he had even supplied models, which he had created himself, to the casters.  His defense against this was that it enabled him to supervise the quality of the work  and to prevent unauthorized copies being made; it has to be said that his defiance of the guild regulations has left a legacy of ormolu mounts of unparalleled distinction.