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A FRENCH ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY AND EBONY COMMODE A L'ANGLAISE AFTER THE MODEL BY BENNEMAN AND ST?CKEL, LATE 19TH CENTURY The demi-lune grey and white marble top above a central frieze drawer mounted with bows and quivers enterwined with flowering branches, flanked Apollo masks and two curved drawers with scrolling ivy and roses, over a cupboard door enclosing three drawers veneered in acajou moucheté, with two mirror-backed marble shelves hung with tasseled drapes, on a bell-flower and patera-mounted base with fluted toupie feet termiating in acorn mounts 38 ? in. (97 cm.) high; 76 ? in. (194.5 cm.) wide; 28 ? in. (72.5 cm.) deep
The design for the present commode à l’anglaise is a 19th century variation of a model originally conceived by Joseph St?ckel for Marie-Antoinette in 1786 and later modified by Guillaume Benneman for the chambre de la Reine at St. Cloud. Guillaume Benneman was one of Marie-Antoinette’s preferred ébénistes who created splendid and profusely-mounted furniture during the ancien régime for Versailles, the Tuileries and Saint-Cloud. Though apparently unsigned, the popular model was reproduced by a number of preeminent 19th-century cabinetmakers, including Fran?ois Linke and Alfred Beurdeley. An unsigned commode of comparable quality and equally palatial scale was sold at Christie's, New York, 10 October 2016, lot 113 ($131,250).