Magnificent Rococo Style Gilt-Bronze, Bois Satiné and Mahogany Commode. By Rosel, Brussels

A Magnificent Rococo Style Gilt-Bronze, Bois Satiné and Mahogany Commode.

By Rosel, Brussels, After The Celebrated Model By Johann Melchoir Kambli.

Of curvaceous bombé form surmounted by a green and pink veined Campan Pyrénées marble within a gilt-bronze undulating surround cast with entrelac bands and centred by a bearded Bacchic mask. The front with a central cartouche flanked to each side by a frieze drawer with a branch form handle. The large base drawer centred by relief cast putti modelled ‘au repos’ atop a bed of acanthus and holding laurel branches and floral garlands. All within a frame of C-scrolls and trelliswork. The sides exuberantly mounted with gilt-bronze en suite. The front corner angles are mounted with massive gilt-bronze clasps sculpted with ribbon-tied rocaille and flowers and supported on palm frond cast feet.

Signed to plaque to the interior 'ROSEL. Fabricant. BRUXELLES'.

Belgium, Circa 1900.

This magnificent commode is a celebration of the fullest flourishing of the German ‘Rokoko’ as as writ large at Frederick the Great’s summer palace of  Sanssouci, Potsdam. It is inspired by the famous 18th century model from the palace for which the bronze mounts were designed and cast by the Swiss sculptor Johann Melchior Kambli (d. 1783) with construction attributed to Johann Friedrich (d. 1812) and Heinrich Wilhelm Spindler (d. 1788). The commode at Sanssouci is veneered in red tortoiseshell and has a lapis lazuli top. It was commissioned by Frederick II of Prussia (d. 1786) around 1760 who admired the opulent bronzes which exemplified the fashionable French Rococo style that he favoured.

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