A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted part-ebonized inlaid mahogany commode after the celebrated model by Jean-François Leleu Paris, circa 1890

fitted with a frieze drawer above two long drawers. Marble top lacking.

Lacking its marble top; the carcass in good condition; the middle long drawer with a small patch to the bottom left corner and a small patch to the ebonized banding near the bottom left corner; small bruise to the left side panel; some small age cracks to ebonized bandings; the gilt-bronze mounts are in good condition and have been cleaned but retain their good color and surface.
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The original commode, on loan from the Petit Trianon, is shown in a line engraving in the retrospective part of the Exposition de l' Union centrale des arts décoratifs, Paris, 1882, De Champeau & Others, 'Les arts du bois,' pub. Quantin, 1883, p. 80. The commode entered the Petit Trianon in 1867 on the occasion of an earlier exhibition dedicated to the memory of Marie-Antoinette, organized under the patronage of the Empress Eugènie. The original now at Versailles (inv. V 702) was first recorded in 1796 in the Luxembourg Palace and, although as yet not related to any commisssion prior to 1796, one might imply a important noble provenance.