A gilt-bronze-mounted green stained fruitwood, sycamore, tulipwood, amaranth and parquetry commode stamped A.L. Gilbert JME and A. Gosselin JME Louis XV/XVI Transitional, circa 1770

of gentle breakfront form, with an associated brèche d'Alep marble top above three frieze drawers mounted with guilloche enclosing flowerheads above two long drawers with three concave-cornered gilt-bronze panels inset with a rosette and inlaid with trelliswork enclosing flowerheads, the apron with a flaming urn with chained putti issuing from a berried laurel draped frieze, the curved corners with laurel swags on cabriole legs terminating in paw feet the sides similarly inlaid and mounted; with two printed paper labels on the reverse one inscribed Sammlun.. E. v. Goldschmidt-R...., no. 493, the other Baronin M... von Roths..ild

Baroness Mathilde von Rothschild, Frankfurt
Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild, Frankfurt, sold
Hermann Ball and Paul Graupe, Berlin, 23rd-25th March 1931, lot 167
Anonymous sale, Christie's, Monaco, 5th December 1992, lot 74
Anonymous sale, Property of a Gentleman, Christie's, London, 4th July 1996, lot 384 (£58,000)

In overall very good conserved condition. Old very minor marks and chips and scratches to the marble top especially along the rear edge. Some very minor chips to the veneer. There is a slight variation in colour to the stained green veneer on the left side where there has been restoration. Hairline split inthe veneer rear left stile. Some very minor restorations to the veneer.The mounts regilt at the end of the 19th century. Only the handles are 19th century and two of the rosettes are surmoulés.
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Comparative Literature:
Jean Nicolay, L'Art et la Manière des Maîtres Ebénistes Français au XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1976, fig. A.
Marie-Noël de Gary, Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, 2007, p. 216.
François Mathey, Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris, 1973, p. 74, no. 339.

This unusual commode in the goût grec style has the stamp of two 18th century Parisian ébénistes but is not characteristic of their work. The guilloche enclosing flowerhead mount on the frieze can be seen on a demi-lune commode by Gosselin, illustrated by Nicolay, op. cit., Fig.A. It is also worthwhile comparing a commode stamped by RVLC, with identical guilloche and flowerhead frieze and corner mounts and very similar gilt-bronze panels framing the parquetry panels in the Musée Nissim de Camondo, illustrated by Mathey, op. cit., p. 74, no. 339. Also see de Gary, op. cit,., for a commode of similar outline and with identical corner mounts and similarly framed parquetry panels by Cramer, which is also in the Musée Nissim de Camondo.

André-Louis Gilbert received Master 1774.
Antoine Gosselin, received Master 1752.