AN EARLY LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD PARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE
Lot 129 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF TOM CRAIG (LOTS 129, 284, 287 & 292)

AN EARLY LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD PARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE

BY NICOLAS-JEAN MARCHAND, CIRCA 1735

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AN EARLY LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD PARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE
BY NICOLAS-JEAN MARCHAND, CIRCA 1735
Stamped 'MARCHAND'
33 ½ in. (85 cm.) high; 53 in. (135 cm.) wide; 24 ¾ in. (63 cm.) deep

With S & H Jewell, 132 High Holborn, London.
Christie's, London, 29 March 1979, lot 139.

Specialist note

Nicolas-Jean Marchand (1697-1757) received his maîtrise before 1738. A similar commode by Marchand is the the Musée Carnavalet, Paris. Marchand is best known for his use of lacquer, working with Gilles Joubert (1689-1775) who supplied furniture to Louis XV, most notably a pair of petit commodes for château de Fontainebleau, now in the Wallace Collection, London.

S & H Jewell were recorded as cabinet-makers between 1830-1840 based in the Holborn, London, but a billhead for furniture supplied to Standen House, East Grinstead, Sussex reveals that the firm continued to operate at the end of the 19th Century.