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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE
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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE

ATTRIBUTED TO BERNARD MOLITOR, CIRCA 1805

Closed13 September 2018

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AN EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE
ATTRIBUTED TO BERNARD MOLITOR, CIRCA 1805
With cipollino marble top above three long drawers flanked by tapering pilasters surmounted by Classical heads terminating with pairs of feet, the plinth base on lion paw feet
34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 51 ¼ in. (130 cm.) wide; 23 ½ in. (59.5 cm.) deep

Probably acquired from Galerie Péquignot, Lausanne (according to chalk inscription).

Specialist note

Illustrated C. Haig and F. von der Schulenburg, ‘Decorative tributes to the Napoleonic epoch’, House and Garden, February 1985, p. 60, fig. 2.