SMALL COMMODE

SMALL COMMODE,

Louis XV, signed I.B. FROMAGEAU (Jean-Baptiste Fromageau, maître 1755), Paris ca. 1760.

Rosewood and purpleheart in veneer, inlaid with reserves. Front with 2 drawers. Gilt bronze mounts and sabots. Shaped grey/beige speckled marble top, replaced. Requires restoration.

78x46x85 cm.

Provenance:
- Gut Aabach, Risch am Zugersee.

Ref.: P. Kjellberg, Le mobilier français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1989; pp. 328ff. (biogr. information). J. Nicolay, L'art et la manière des maîtres ébénistes français au XVIIIe siècle, Paris 1976; I, pp. 135 (biogr. information).