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Lot 114PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DR. BRUCE WILSON
A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID AMARANTH, KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND INDIAN ROSEWOOD COMMODE
CIRCA 1725, PARTIALLY LATER MOUNTED
Closed18 June 2024
Estimate
USD 8,000–12,000
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Specialist note
The distinctive form of this lot with its outcurved sides relates it to a group of commodes executed in the late Louis XIV and the early Régence periods, many of which are veneered with Boulle inlay (P. Grand, "Le Mobilier Boulle et les Ateliers de L'Epoque", L'Estampille/Objet d'Art, no. 266, February 1993, pp. 60-61, figs. 20-25).
A related example with similar elegant patterning of interlacing circles and diamonds was sold by Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 1983, lot 211 and again sold by Sotheby's, New York, 31 October 1987, lot 139. A commode of similar proportions and mounts with a later marble top is in the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection, 1974, vol. I, p. 198, no. 43); and another is in the Museé Carnavalet (illustrated in S. de Ricci, Louis XIV und Régence, 1929, p. 184).
A related example with similar elegant patterning of interlacing circles and diamonds was sold by Sotheby's, New York, 7 May 1983, lot 211 and again sold by Sotheby's, New York, 31 October 1987, lot 139. A commode of similar proportions and mounts with a later marble top is in the Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor (illustrated in G. de Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection, 1974, vol. I, p. 198, no. 43); and another is in the Museé Carnavalet (illustrated in S. de Ricci, Louis XIV und Régence, 1929, p. 184).