commode à ressaut French, circa 1890

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Description

height 39 in.; width 5 ft. 10 7/8 in.; depth 25 1/2 in.
99 cm; 180 cm; 64.8 cm

satiné, burr wood, amarante, flower-head trellis-parquetry on sycomore veneer with ébène and buis stringings, fruitwood nature morte marquetry on platane veneers, arabescato marble top, two long drawers beneath three frieze drawers.

Literature

C. Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, Woodbridge, 1989, p. 92

P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, 2002, p. 738, for an illustration of the 18th century model, circa 1774, supplied by Riesener for Louis XVI's Cabinet de Retraite at Fontainebleau.

D. Meyer, Versailles Furniture of the Royal Place: 17th and 18th Centuries, Vol. I, p. 136, for a discussion of the 18th century model by Riesener.

Catalogue Note

The very fine nature morte marquetry panel follows exactly the design of the original found on the commode executed in 1778 by Jean-Henri Riesener (maître en 1768) for the cabinet de retraite of King Louis XVI at the Château de Fontainebleau, later moved to the King's bibliothèque at the Château de Versailles. The original commode was acquired in the early 19th century by Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, later owned by the Barons Nathaniel and Albert von Rothschild. It is now in the permanent collection of the Château de Fontainebleau.