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A gilt-bronze mounted mahogany commode after the model by Guillaume Benneman circa 1900
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description
- height 36 5/8 in.; width 5 ft. 8 1/2 in.; depth 26 1/2 in.
- 93 cm; 174 cm; 67.2 cm
the white veined marble top with rounded outset corners above three frieze drawers and a pair of cupboard doors centred by ribbon-tied roundel cast in relief with satyr and putto, the sides also with central roundel depicting bacchic scenes, flanked by reeded colums with acanthus capital.
Catalogue Note
The present commode is closely based on the model executed by the eighteenth century ébéniste Guillaume Benneman, received maître in 1785, adapted from a model by Joseph Stöckel, received maître in 1775 and supplied to Queen Marie-Antoinette in 1786 for the Salon des jeux at Fontainebleau.
A similar example, sold in these rooms, November 22, 2005, lot 303 ($33,000).