a gilt-bronze mounted kingwood, satine, amaranth and satinwood commode after the model by Antoine Gaudreaux Possibly french, early 20th century

with a moulded shaped Rouge de Rance marble top above a pair doors opening to four drawers, the front applied with ribbon-tied acanthus leaves and flower garlands, the medals cast with Roman emperors and centered by ovals with a cherub and goat, and Ariadne on a leopard, all on a diamond parquetry ground centered by a female mask, the shaped sides with similar mouldings, centered by Hercules and Venus with Athena on moulded scroll legs, with ram's head capitals, some mounts have been removed to reveal the mark KAHN from the bronze master models.

Christopher Payne, The Price Guide to 19th Century European Furniture, Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1981, p.86, plate 147.

This commode is based on the famous kingwood medal cabinet supplied by the Royal cabinet-maker Antoine-Robert Gaudreaux (1682-1746) on 10 January 1739 for the Cabinet Interieur of Louis XV at Versailles. The bronze mounts were modelled by the Slodtz brothers.  The commode was a popular model amongst Parisian makers during the second half of the 19th century and many variants of it were made.