A fine Louis XV ormolu-mounted tulipwood commode mid-18th century, signed Landrin

with a molded serpentine-fronted sarrancolin marble top, the bombé case fitted with two long drawers veneered to simulate four drawers and fitted with elaborate ormolu handles and keyhole escutcheons cast with voluted scrolls, shell and wave motifs, raised on cabriole legs headed by pierced ormolu chutes continuing to scrolled ormolu sabots; the whole outlined with ormolu borders and centered at each side and the apron with scrolling ormolu mounts.

Probably Chateau de Millemont in the early 19th century

Sold, Sotheby's, Monaco, June 23, 1985, lot 810

The Countess Spencer, Althorp

Partridge Fine Arts, London

A. Pradère, French Furniture Makers, 1989, p. 200

Stamped beneath the drawer. In overall very good restored condition with minor restorations to the marble top. Restorations to the veneer. Some rubbing to the ormolu mounts. Minor hairline construction and age cracks, some which have been filled, others have reopened in areas. Minor cracks to the varnish. Restorations to sabots.
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Germain Landrin (1710-1785) was one of the principal suppliers to his fellow ébéniste Pierre II Migeon, with many of the pieces he made veneered in very much the same fashion as the present piece. He also supplied furniture to Denis Genty and appeared as a creditor in the inventory taken after the death of J.F. Oeben in 1764. Well regarded, Landrin became an adjudicator in his guild in 1746 and was elevated to principal in 1772 (see Pradère, op. cit.).