Two mahogany and ormolu commodes, opening with three drawers and two leaves revealing four interior drawers, decorated with ormolu medallions representing a bacchante and a child-satyr, in a foliage scroll surround, the molded marble tops (replaced) resting on engaged columnar uprights with flutes terminating in toupie feet After Guillaume Benneman. Louis XVI style. H : 85 cm, W : 146 cm, D : 60 cm Transformed by Guillaume Benneman from Joseph Stockel chests of drawers, the originals of these two chests of drawers (the porcelain medallions) arrived just in time for the autumn stay of 1786, the last stay of the Marie-Antoinette in Fontainebleau, and they were then installed in the large Salon des jeux of the queen. Today they are kept in the Fontainebleau castle.
Result
€25,600
Buyer's premium
28%
Two mahogany and ormolu commodes, opening with three drawers and two leaves revealing four interior drawers, decorated with ormolu medallions representing a bacchante and a child-satyr, in a foliage scroll surround, the molded marble tops (replaced) resting on engaged columnar uprights with flutes terminating in toupie feet
After Guillaume Benneman.
Louis XVI style.
H : 85 cm, W : 146 cm, D : 60 cm
Transformed by Guillaume Benneman from Joseph Stockel chests of drawers, the originals of these two chests of drawers (the porcelain medallions) arrived just in time for the autumn stay of 1786, the last stay of the Marie-Antoinette in Fontainebleau, and they were then installed in the large Salon des jeux of the queen. Today they are kept in the Fontainebleau castle.
Sale
Friday 13 January 2023・14:00 (Europe/Paris)
Salle 9 - Hôtel Drouot
9, rue Drouot
75009 Paris