Live Auction 14226Opulence: Silver, Gold Boxes, 19th Century Furniture & Works of Art
A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND KINGWOOD PARQUETRY COMMODE A VANTAUX
Lot 287 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION

A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND KINGWOOD PARQUETRY COMMODE A VANTAUX

AFTER THE MODEL DESIGNED BY THE SLODTZ BROTHERS AND EXECUTED BY ANTOINE GAUDREAUX, LATE 19TH CENTURY

Closed6 June 2017

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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND KINGWOOD PARQUETRY COMMODE A VANTAUX
AFTER THE MODEL DESIGNED BY THE SLODTZ BROTHERS AND EXECUTED BY ANTOINE GAUDREAUX, LATE 19TH CENTURY
The serpentine violet breccia marble top above a conforming case set with two cupboard doors each decorated with lozenge parquetry and centred by a blue oval medallion and ribbon-tied floral frame, the interior fitted with four drawers, on scrolled legs
37 ¾ in. (96 cm.) high, 68 in. (172.5 cm.) wide, 26 ¼ in. (66.5 cm.) deep

Property from a Private European Collection; Christie's, 22 September 2007, lot 91.

Specialist note

This commode is based on the commode médallier by Antoine Gaudreaux (d. 1746), so called because it contained a set of the famous series of medals known as the medallic history of Louis XIV and Louis XV which included portraits of the leading crowned heads of Europe and to which medals of the most beautiful buildings of the reign of Louis XV were later added. It was delivered on 10 January 1739 for the Cabinet aux tableaux in Louis XV's new apartments at Versailles. It was referred to at the time as 'Par les Srs Gaudreaux ébéniste et Slodtz frères, sculpteurs, pour servir dans le cabinet aux tableaux avant la petite galerie à Versailles'. In 1755 a matching pair of encoignures were made by Gilles Joubert (d. 1775) which were removed with the commode médallier by the order of Louis XVI and placed in the Medal Department of the Royal Library. However in 1960 the suite returned to Versailles where it remains on display.