A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD COMMODE A L'ANGLAISE, ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE-CHARLES SAUNIER, CIRCA 1780

A LOUIS XVI ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD COMMODE A L'ANGLAISE
ATTRIBUTED TO CLAUDE-CHARLES SAUNIER, CIRCA 1780
The shaped white marble top with pierced gallery above a frieze drawer decorated with pierced scrolling sunflowers with two drawers below flanked by rounded corner shelves on turned tapering legs with foliate sabots, chalked to the reverse '21'
39 ½ in. (100.5 cm.) high; 69 ¾ in. (177 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

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Please note that this provenance for this commode should read:
The Dukes of Bauffremont, Château de Brienne, Brienne-le-Château.
Virginia M. Rosenthal; Sotheby's, New York, 13-14 April 1945, lot 208.
Sydney J. Lamon of New York; Christie's, London, 29 November 1973, lot 104.