Supporting piece of furniture in rosewood and gilt bronze, with a curved shape on the front and on the sides, opening with two leaves (locked, no verification of the presence of the drawers with medals could be made), decorated with four oval medallions in the antique style on a green painted background in a gilt bronze frame decorated with medals, garlands, foliage, mascaron and heads of ram; green marble top; (accidents and restorations) After the medallion cabinet delivered by Antoine Robert Gaudreaus to the Palace of Versailles in 1739. Louis XV style, around 1870-1880. H : 97 cm, W : 175 cm, D : 69 cm One of the most famous pieces of furniture of the 18th century, the medallion cabinet designed by the Slotdz brothers and made by Gaudreaus, was delivered in 1738 for the cabinet of medals at Versailles. It was intended to house the metal history of the king. As an icon of 18th century French furniture, this medallion cabinet was copied many times during the 19th century, notably by the cabinetmaker Sormani. A copy by Sormani was recently sold in Paris by Auction Art on March 25, 2014, lot 87. Another chest of drawers signed Dasson 1870 was sold by Christie's in London on October 29, 1998, lot 305. It is also known that Richard Seymour-Conway (1800-1870), Richard Wallace's father, had this model copied in Paris between 1850 and 1870 along with a dozen other pieces of furniture (Camille Mestdagh, Les copies à l'ère des premières expositions universelles, un XVIIIe qui continue de vivre? Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2016). This chest of drawers is found on the second floor of his hotel at 2 rue Lafitte in a salon overlooking the street (P. Hughes, The Wallace collection catalog of furniture, III, p. 1546 (ill.)). This observation shows that a number of copies were made quite early for this kind of practice and in any case well before 1880.