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A LATE LOUIS XV ORMOLU-MOUNTED TULIPWOOD AND FRUITWOOD PARQUETRY COMMODE CIRCA 1760 The rectangular rouge royal moulded top above a panelled frieze drawer and two further drawers sans traverse, each centred by an oval ribbon-tied escutcheon flanked by berried-laurel ring handles, the rounded sides headed by chute de piastres angle mounts, on cabriole legs terminating in acanthus-cast lion-paw sabots, with crowned 'CP' and anchor mark; remounted 32 ? in. (83 cm.) high; 40 in. (101.5 cm.) wide; 19 in. (48 cm.) deep
The brand on this commode indicates that it was part of the collection of Louis-Jean-Marie de Bourbon, duc de Penthièvre (1725-1793) at the chateau de Chanteloup. The son of the Comte de Toulouse, (the illegitimate son of Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan) his son married the princesse de Lamballe while his daughter married the duc d'Orléans. In 1737 on the death of his father he succeeded to the post of Admiral de France which accounts for the presence of an anchor in his inventory brands. The duc de Penthièvre acquired the chateau de Chanteloup late in his life in 1785 from the estate of the duc de Choiseul having been prevailed upon to sell his birthplace the chateau de Rambouillet to Louis XVI in 1783 (see G. De Bellaigue, The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, Furniture and Gilt Bronzes, 1974, p. 600). Closely related to the 'commodes à la grecque' delivered by Jean-Fran?ois Oeben to étienne Fran?ois, duc de Choiseul (1719-1785) for Chanteloup in the 1760s, it is probable that the present commode was part of the contents transferred into the collection of the duc de Penthièvre upon purchasing the chateau in 1785.