Sauteuse Commode Louis XV - Louis XVI XVIIIth

Chest of drawers, sauteuse, Transition Louis XV-Louis XVI in mahogany, amaranth and walnut veneer (for the sides) with fillets of rosewood and tinted wood. The interiors and the bottom are in fir. Its top is in Portor marble - black with ocher veins, this rare marble has been mined in Italy (on the coast of Genoa) since antiquity, and reserved for the most sumptuous furniture - It opens with 2 drawers furnished with keyholes and bronze pull rings in the Louis XVI style and rests on 4 arched feet, those at the front finished with bronze shoes. The cut sides are decorated with falls with rams' heads. It was varnished with a buffer.

Transition Period Louis XV Louis XVI (circa 1775).

Perfect condition after restoration, stripping and varnished with a buffer.

width to the marble 97cm - to the body 92.5cm prof. to the marble 49.5cm - to the body 46.5cm height 91cm

Ref. : 287Q