A Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted plum-pudding mahogany commode Paris, circa 1880

surmounted by a rouge de Maine marble top, fitted with a frieze drawer above two long drawers.  Handles stamped EM.

Overall good condition; the marble top with usual minor chips to edges and light surface scratches; the gilt-bronze cleaned and retaining original gilding and with minor areas of tarnishing and dirt; the two lower drawers each with a loose right handle, which is detached but present, one handle is in need of a threaded bolt and a nut, the other is lacking a nut; the veneers in good condition with thin chip to veneer of the drawer divider beneath the bottom left corner of the frieze drawer; minor nicks and bruises to edges of carcass.
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