Price on application

The BADA Standard

  • Since 1918, BADA has been the leading association for the antiques and fine art trade
  • Members are elected for their knowledge, integrity and quality of stock
  • Our clients are protected by BADA’s code of conduct
  • Our dealers’ membership is reviewed and renewed annually
  • Bada.org is a non-profit site: clients deal directly with members and they pay no hidden fees
Click here for more information on the BADA Standard

A Fine Louis XVI Style Gilt-Bronze Mounted Commode after a Model by Jean-François Leleu.  

French, Circa 1870.

This important commode has a moulded rectangular Brocatelle Violette du Jura marble top above a frieze drawer with a pierced foliate cast panel, above two panelled long drawers quarter-veneered sans travers. The fluted angles of the commode are headed by scrolled acanthus cast clasps and it is raised on turned tapering legs with toupie feet.

The commode is based on the celebrated 18th century model, by Jean-François Leleu (1729-1807), now conserved at the Petit Trianon at Versailles.  It was placed there in 1867 following an exhibition organised at the request of Empress Eugénie in memory of Queen Marie-Antoinette. The commode was further exhibited in Paris in the retrospective part of the Exposition de l' Union centrale des arts décoratifs in 1882. 

Literature:

Exposition de l' Union centrale des arts décoratifs, (Paris), 1882.

De Champeau & Others. Les arts du bois, pub. Quantin, 1883; p. 80.

P. Arizzoli-Clementel. Versailles Furniture of the Royal Palace 17th and 18th Centuries, Vol II,  (Dijon), 2002; pp. 122-123, for the 18th century model by Jean-François Leleu.

Dimensions

Height : 89 cm 35 inches Width : 153 cm 60 inches Depth : 64 cm 25 inches

Price on application





Stock number

B72601
Open Monday-Friday 10-6

The BADA Standard

  • Since 1918, BADA has been the leading association for the antiques and fine art trade
  • Members are elected for their knowledge, integrity and quality of stock
  • Our clients are protected by BADA’s code of conduct
  • Our dealers’ membership is reviewed and renewed annually
  • Bada.org is a non-profit site: clients deal directly with members and they pay no hidden fees
Click here for more information on the BADA Standard