E. Kahn & Cie. active late 19th/early 20th century A LOUIS XVI STYLE GILT BRONZE MOUNTED FRUITWOOD, MAHOGANY AND FLOWER HEAD TRELLIS MARQUETRY COMMODE AFTER THE MODEL BY JEAN-HENRI RIESENER Paris, circa 1890s

surmounted by a veined white Carrara marble top and fitted with two long drawers, both sides fitted with a cupboard centered by a war trophy and opening to one shelf, the escutcheon mount centering the upper drawer has been removed to reveal the impressed mark KAHN from the bronze master model. 

Christian Baulez, Versailles: Deux Siècles d'Histoire de l'Art, Versailles, 2007, p. 95, for the original model in Versailles
 

Overall in good and fair condition. The two long drawers slide open and closed easily, which is uncommon with this model and a sign of good and sturdy cabinetry. The bronze with their original gilding but now with dirt, pitting and some areas of tarnishing. The veneers with a few repairs and areas of filler, several vertical cracks. One vertical crack to central marquetry panel of drawers.
In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective qualified opinion.
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This commode is a copy of the celebrated model delivered in 1775 by Jean-Henri Riesener to King Louis XV for his private apartments at the Château de Versailles. It is now in the Musée Condé, Château de Chantilly. The commode is decorated with figures emblematic of Courage, Force, Prudence and Tempérence.  The present model is undoubtedly of late nineteenth-century manufacture, a rarity in today's market in which examples from the 1910s and 1920s are more common.  The carcass is made of solid oak with a flame-figured mahogany veneer.  The bronze mounts also display a good quality of casting. 

E. Kahn & Cie. was a company that produced and sold the most celebrated French eighteenth-century models after models by Weisweiler, Stockel, Benneman, Cressent, Gaudreaux and Riesener as in the present lot.  He is also known to have produced and sold the Edwardian furniture fashionable at that time in London.  In England, his company was advertised as E. Kahn & Co. Ltd., "Manufacturers of Furniture and Upholstery, specialists in lacquered furniture, wholesale & export," with premises at 6-10 St. Andrew St. and 18-21 Charlotte St. and with a factory at 19-51 Gough St.  In Paris, he was located at 84, avenue Ledru-Rollin in the 12th arrondissement.  To Kahn's credit, François Linke allowed one of his most important creations, the grand bureau, index number 550, for which he won a gold medal at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle, to be illustrated in his London brochure. (see Payne, François Linke, p. 128) 

Sotheby's is grateful to Alain Kouyoumdjian for assistance in researching the cabinetmaker E. Kahn and the compilation of the present footnote.