Early 18th Century French Louis XIV Painted Oak Commode

18th Century French Louis XV provincial walnut commode. With a serpentine front and two carved drawers above a carved apron on cabriole legs. Circa 1710.

A wonderful French 18th Century painted commode. With the most wonderful painted faux marble top. A typically Provence pale blue with gilt highlighting to the mouldings and central s...

18th century French commode. A fine quality Louis XV period walnut commode of most attractive colour. Of bombe form consisting of three ...

Shapely and robust 18th Century French two-drawer commode with brass handles, escutcheons, and key. The distressed blue and cream finish has been ...

The straight grain and rich color of the cherry tree made it a desirable wood for constructing luxury furniture during the 18th century. One beautiful example is our period Louis XIV commode, which was hand-carved in France in the early 1700’s. Augmenting the lovely reddish-brown color of the commode is an arbalete top that slightly hangs over the three stacked drawers below. Each drawer has three bronze foliate fittings set inside geometric panels with recessed molding (two pierced foliate swag pulls flanking a small keyplate surrounded by a parted leaf). There is a unique, shallow pullout drawer with two concentric circle pulls built into the molded frieze. This drawer was most likely used to store jewelry and other small valuables. Canted corners can be seen along the front of the shaped top, with elongated asymmetrical panels beneath that flank the tiers of drawers...

An 18th century French Louis XIV style commode from Grenoble with fine marquetry inlay of cherry, walnut and mahogany. Three dovetailed drawers with slightly serpentine front. Top ha...

18th Century Louis XIV French Commode with lion's head pulls and accents. Pinned construction with dove tailed drawers, wood is walnut Ready to place

19th century French Louis XIV painted commode is as functional as it is visually appealing! The wonderfully contoured facade embraces four spacious drawers that are fitted with brass pulls and carved with stylized foliate motifs. The rounded cornerposts have received the attentions of the sculptor's hand, as well, with scrollwork and foliates leading the eye down to the massive lion's paw feet below, all set at 45 degrees to enhance the look. The multi-hued gray patinaed painted...