A Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted tulipwood, kingwood, amaranth, maple, holly and hornbeam commode, circa 1770, in the manner of Pierre-Harry Mewesen
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June 25, 09:57 AM GMT
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7,000 - 10,000 EUR
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Description
opening with three drawers, the marquetry decorated with quatrefoils in octagonal frames, the sides with simulated fluting, on four cabriole legs ending in acanthus hoof feet, with a white veined marble top; (regilt)
Haut. 84 cm, larg. 84 cm, prof. 46 cm ; Height. 33 in, width. 33 in, depth. 18 in.
Sotheby’s, London, 28 april 2015, lot 122 (sold 15 000 £)
Related literature :
M. I. Pereira Coutinho, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, 18th Century French Furniture, Lisbon, 1999, pp. 205-207
This quatrefoil marquetry within these frames is characteristic of the work of Pierre-Harry Mewesen. The presence in the Gulbenkian Museum's collections of a similar commode, illustrated by I.Pereira Coutinho, 18th Century French Furniture: Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, 1999, p. 205, inv. no. 126, confirms this attribution. Martin Carlin also proposed furniture with this type of marquetry panels, which would likely indicate that they were made for a merchant-mercer, perhaps Adrien Faizelot Delorme, a hypothesis strengthened by the sale by Christie's on 13 June 2002, lot 395, of a Coromandel lacquer commode from Longleat Castle, stamped by Mewesen and Faizelot.