Louis Moreau, Commode In Mahogany Stamped Louis XVI Period Around 1770

Louis Moreau, Commode Stamped In Mahogany From The Louis XVI Period Around 1770 Elegant Commode From The Louis XVI Period, Stamped By Louis Moreau, In Mahogany And Speckled Mahogany Inlaid With A Filet Of Light Wood. It opens with 5 drawers in 3 rows. Three Drawers in the Upper Part and Two Large Drawers without Traverse in the Lower Part. It Rests on 4 Tapered and Fluted Feet. Fluted Uprights. Drawers and Side Panels Underlined with Blackened Wood Strip. Very Beautiful Ornamentation of Original Gilded and Chiselled Bonzes, Very Beautiful Gilding. Oak building. Garnished with a Gray Veined White Marble Top. Stamped Several Times by the Famous Cabinetmaker LOUIS MOREAU. Louis Moreau (1740-1791) Cabinetmaker-sculptor. Paris. Master on September 27, 1764. He employed skilled workers such as cabinetmakers Bircklé, Foullet, Topino, founders Guinaud and Cottin and gilders Prégermain and Fagard. Louis Moreau worked for a wealthy aristocratic clientele as well as for the superintendence of Menus-Plaisirs, a royal administration specifically responsible for the organization of festivals and ceremonies at the court which ordered pieces of furniture from him on several occasions under Louis XVI. Since his accession to the master's degree, on September 27, 1764, Moreau practiced rue de l'Echelle-Saint-Honoré, under the sign "On the descent of the Tuileries". He had taken over the business of his colleague Denis Genty. If his Work was very diversified as evidenced by a label found on one of his pieces of furniture with the mention "Made and holds Store [of different pieces of furniture such as] Secretary, Wardrobe, Chest of drawers, Bookcase, Cylinder desk, Table to play , English Mahogany Table, and everything related to Joinery and Cabinetmaking in Paris", Moreau seems however to have had a clear predilection for half-moon chests of drawers with two large front drawers and side leaves. A Transition chest of drawers with double projection stamped L. MOREAU and from the Kress collection is currently kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. Very High Quality Furniture from the Louis XVI Period, Around 1770. Dimensions: Height: 89.5 cm Width: 128.5 cm Depth: 59 cm In Very Good Condition. For all information, contact us.