A gilt-bronze mounted amaranth, sycamore and fruitwood commode, after the model by Jean-Henri Riesener circa 1880

in the Louis XVI style, with molded breakfront marble top, the front set with three small frieze drawers above two large drawers sans traverse, decorated with a nature morte marquetry panel and flanked on each side by flowerhead-filled trellis parquetry panels, the angles with acanthus-cast volutes, on scrolled acanthus-cast feet, the mounts with inscription JT to the reverse and the handles with incriptions JT 1506, JT 1503, JT 1509.

Comparative literature: Christopher Payne, 19^th Century European Furniture, Woodbridge, 1989, p. 92

The marqueterie panel of the present commode is closely based on one of the commodes executed in 1778 by Jean-Henri Riesener reçu maître en 1768 for the cabinet de retraite of King Louis XVI at the Château de Fontainebleau and later moved to the King's bibliothèque at the Château de Versailles.  The original commode acquired in the early 19^th century by Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10^th Duke of Hamilton, then later owned by the Barons Nathaniel and Albert von Rothschild is now in the permanent collection of the Château de Versailles. 

A similar commode bearing similar inscriptions to the gilt-bronze mounts sold, Christie's, Amsterdam, February 15, 2005, lot 322 ($34,699).