Louis XIV "en tumbeau" commode, ca. 1710

Louis XIV "en tumbeau" commode, ca. 1710.
Ebonized wood with tortoiseshell and brass marquetry. Gilt and chiseled bronze applications. Flanders marble top.
Exhibits wear consistent with age and use, restorations, some losses to the marquetry and non-active woodworm marks.
With its key.
Measurements: 85 x 130 x 65 cm.

Extraordinary and unique chest of drawers of convex elevation, typically rococo, embellished with Boulle style marquetry with an intricate design of palmettes and floral scrolls. The drawers (with a total of six divided into four rows) are clearly differentiated from each other by means of wide shelves, although, being a clearly rococo piece of furniture, the cabinetmaker tended to visually unify the structure, to hide it, through the decoration. The decorativism of the piece of furniture sees its maximum expression in the side panels, ornamented with beautiful masks from which emerge sinuous foliate motifs, with period gilding, as well as the handles with tasseled ends. The waist, smooth, is decorated on the front with a trimmed skirt, once again embellished with a mask, although this time feminine and with classical reminiscences. The legs follow a rococo design based on mitered curves covered with foliage.