An Early 20th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and Sèvres Mounted Commode A Vantaux
Item # CC930
An Early 20th Century Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze and Sèvres Mounted Commode A Vantaux
A marble top above a frieze applied with scrolling-vine mounts and fronted by three drawers centered by a lion’s mask and oak branches, the cupboard doors with a central porcelain rounded plaque of Louis XVI within a demi lune frame filled with arabesque scrolling vine, the sides with beautuful Sèvres porcelain plaques of Marie Antoinette.
The design of the present commode relates closely to that of a pair adapted by Guillaume Benneman from a model by Joseph Stöckel supplied to Marie-Antoinette in 1786 for the Salon des Jeux at Fontainebleau.
Details:
Height – 37 inches / 94cm
Width – 70.5 inches / 179cm
Depth – 26 inches / 66cm