Rosewood and geometric marquetry chest of drawers, the double-splayed front opening to five drawers in three rows, decorated with quatrefoils in squares on a diamond background in gilded brass frames with rosettes in the recesses, the white marble top resting on rounded uprights extended by cambered legs, gilded bronze ornamentation with interlacing frieze, apron falls and sabots; Journal du Garde-Meuble de la Couronne entry number in ink: N° 2613 /2 (crossed out) and Château de Marly inventory number: M. N° 97, under the marble: N° 2613/2 (in ink) and incised letter B. Stamped by Daniel Deloose, cabinetmaker received as Master in 1767 and JME. Louis XV period, 1771. H. 90.5 cm, W. 128.5 cm, D. 56.5 cm Provenance : Delivered by Gilles Joubert to the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne for the apartments of the Count and Countess of Provence at Château de Marly on May 27, 1771 (at the same time and under the same number 2613/2 as another identical chest of drawers now in the Musée-Promenade de Marly-le-Roi-Louveciennes), chambre du comte de Provence at Château de Marly (inventoried in 1788) then sold (with its counterpart under numbers 3877 and 3895) on November 22, 1793 during the revolutionary sales, purchased either by Leblanc or Belair, former collection of Alexandre-Pierre Dionis du Séjour (1796-1862) or Madame Rosalie Dionis du Séjour (1806-1903), née Le Sourd, rue Servandoni in Paris, through inheritance to the current owner. Bibliographical references : S. Castelluccio, Le château de Marly sous le règne de Louis XVI, Paris, 1996, p. 173-181. S. Castelluccio, Marly, Montreuil, 2014, p. 193 (its counterpart, preserved in the Musée Promenade de Marly-le-Roi-Louveciennes, is illustrated). B. Rondot, "Enrichment des collections de l'année 2014, n° 2", Versalia, n°19, 2016, p. 13-15).The history of this commode (presented for sale on June 18, 2002, lot 113 at Sotheby's in Paris) has been well known since the publication of Stéphane Castelluccio's works on the Château de Marly. Unknown at the time of the first publication in 1996, it was simply mentioned in the archival documents, before the 2014 publication of the photograph of the second commode from the former Rothschild collections (New York sale, Christie's, October 26, 2001, lot 280), now in the Musée de Marly. The journal of the Garde-meuble de la couronne mentions the delivery of the two commodes by Gilles Joubert on May 27, 1771: " 2613. Two commodes à la régence in violet and pink wood with veneers and mosaic. The veined white marble top has two large drawers in front and three small drawers above, locked by the same lock, fitted with lock escutcheons, mobile rings, carderons with rosettes, falls decorated with garlands of laurel leaves, soupente and feet, all of chased bronze overdorn with ground gold, 4 feet long by 24 inches deep and 33 inches high". The first of the two commodes appeared at the 2001 sale of the Rothschild collections in Vienna. It was accompanied by another chest of drawers completely unrelated to the delivery for the Count and Countess of Provence, but nevertheless sold by Christie's under the same lot number. These two commodes are now in the Musée de Marly. The second commode, presented here, comes from the former Dionis du Séjour collections in the 19th century (still kept in the family) and has been traced since its mention (family archives) to Rosalie Dionis du Séjour, without it being possible to determine the circumstances of its purchase. The most likely hypothesis is that the chest of drawers came either from her husband's parents, Alexandre and Octavie Dionis du Séjour, or from her own parents Louis and Rosalie Le Sourd, who could, in either case, have acquired it as early as the end of the 18th century.The description of the delivery, perfectly in line with our chest of drawers, specifies an important detail about the quality of the gilding. The bronzes are described as "surdoré", i.e. the gilder had taken care to make several passages of amalgam of gold and mercury, in order to obtain a richer gilding. In 1771, when the commode was delivered, the Count of Provence (1755-1824) moved into the apartments on the mezzanine floor that had been built seven years earlier for his father, the Dauphin Louis de France (1729-1765). The room in which the commode was inventoried in 1788, preceded by two antechambers and followed by a cabinet, is still upholstered in red damask. It is lit by three windows with red damask curtains (full description available in the catalog).