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Material: Bronze
French Bombe Commode Louis XV Style
Located in SAINTE-COLOMBE, FR
French Bombe Commode Louis XV Style
This attractive French Bombe Commode features a stunning free-standing Breche marble top with a moulded outer edge. This is removable for transp...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XV Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Large Louis XV Chest of Drawers, Rosewood and Mahogany Marble-top 18th Ctr
Located in Kastrup, DK
Large (148 cm wide) decorative Louis XV chest commode.
Rosewood and mahogany parquetry, gilt bronze mounting.
Original grey Belgian marble-top ...
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Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Pair of French Louis XV Style "Semainier" Tall Lingerie Commodes Marble with Top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of French Louis XV style "Semainier" tall chest commodes with a Brêche d'Alep marble top. The slender walnut and tulipwood body, each fitted with seven drawers with gilt bronz...
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Early 1900s French Louis XV Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$4,985 Sale Price / set
26% Off
19th Century Danish Chest of Drawers
Located in Forney, TX
A monumental Danish chest of drawers commode from the 19th century. The magnificent, handcrafted Scandinavian antique having molded cornice, over case fitted with five drawers, all w...
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19th Century Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze, Ormolu
French Art Deco Sideboard in Thuya from Christian Krass in Outstanding Quality
Located in Ulm, DE
Sideboard of very fine quality
Signed: "Christian Krass"
Christian Krass was in close collaboration with the ebenist Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann.
The design language of this premium fu...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
French Art Deco Burled Amboyna Commode
Located in Queens, NY
French Art Deco burled amboyna wood two door commode with bronze trim detailing with diamond design brass pencil line inlay. (Rasson model) (signed: EMILE-JACQUES RUHLMANN) Note: Ivo...
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20th Century French Art Deco Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass, Bronze
18th Century Louis XV Style Kingwood Galbée Commode by Pierre Roussel
Located in Miami, FL
Versailles style, rare and important French Louis XV style commode or chest of drawers stamped 'P. Roussel' (Pierre Roussel 1723-June 7, 1782 ). This fine and high quality commode wi...
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18th Century French Louis XV Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Breccia Marble, Ormolu, Bronze
A Fine Louis XVI-Style Japanese Lacquer and Ebony Marble-Top Commode à Vantaux
By Martin Carlin
Located in New York, NY
A Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze Mounted Japanese Lacquer and Ebony Marble-Top Commode à Vantaux
After the Model by Martin Carlin, Paris, Circa 1890
Height 37 x width 60 x depth 21 inc...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
A French Louis XVI style mahogany commode, C. 1900.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
The two drawer commode has a marble top and bronze mounts.
Perfect in an entryway as a drop zone or even in a bathroom to display all your toiletries beside a plant.
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century Empire Drop-Front Oak Secretary Desk or Abattant, Chest France
Located in Miami, FL
Secretaire a abattant, France circa 1820, Biedermeier period. The outside with fall front and two drawers flanked by two ebonized columns shows a beautiful oak veneer design. The woo...
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Early 19th Century French Biedermeier Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
FRANCESCO PREDA Italian Neo-Class Walnut and Lemonwood Inlaid Commode / Chest
Located in Queens, NY
"Italian Neo-Classic (Milanese) walnut and lemonwood 3-drawer commode / chest with ornate inlaid patterns along the borders and sides with a central inlaid pastoral scene on the draw...
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18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Louis Philippe Mahogany Commode
Located in Winter Park, FL
An early 19th century French Louis Philippe mahogany commode, or chest of drawers with marble top. Fine craftsmanship with book-matched...
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19th Century French Louis Philippe Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Italian 18th Century Walnut and Mahogany Three-Drawer, Serpentine Front Chest
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian walnut and mahogany three-drawer chest from the 18th century with serpentine front, aged bronze hardware and bracket feet. Immerse yourself in the allure of the 18th centu...
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18th Century Italian Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Early 19th Century Louis XVI Gilt Bronze-Decorated Mahogany Commode / Server
Located in Tarry Town, NY
This exceptional Louis XVI-style commode, crafted in France around 1820, embodies the elegance and craftsmanship of the early 19th century. Designed to impress, this piece features a...
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1820s French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Gorgeous Distressed Creme Paint Decorated Louis XV Commode Dresser Circa 1930s
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This is a spectacular French-made Louis XV or Country French style distressed paint decorated commode. The commode features bronze hardware and subtle details and a gorgeous finish. ...
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1930s French Louis XV Vintage Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
$2,316 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century French Louis XV Marble Top Inlaid Commode with Bronze Ormolu Mounts
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Dimensions - H: 36in W: 60in D: 22in
This 18th C. French Louis XV Style Bronze Ormolu Mounted Marble Top Commode or Chest of Drawers is a museum quality piece that is an incredible ...
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18th Century French Louis XV Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
18th Century German Baroque Chest of Drawers
Located in Charleston, SC
18th Century German Baroque painted chest of drawers with serpentine front drawers on tapered feet in later paint.
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18th Century German Baroque Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Bombé Chest With Marble Top for Restoration
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A Classic French Bombé Two-Over-Two Chest in handsome Cherry Finish and having large Dramatic Drawer Pulls, Key Escutcheons and leg mounts. The Chest is topped with a fine and well grained Marble Top in Striated Brown and White with a lovely shaped Edge. The Antique Drawer Locks...
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19th Century French French Provincial Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
18th Century Louis XVI Marquetry Commode or Chest of Drawers with Tulipwood
Located in Miami, FL
18th century Louis XVI marquetry commode or chest of drawers with tulipwood inlay veneer and oak and pine as secondary wood.
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18th Century Spanish Neoclassical Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Modern Black Sideboard with Marble Top and Brass, Copper, Bronze, Gold
Located in Riga, LV
Made from ash veneer with steel legs, copper, bronze and brass drawers and unique marble top. It is wonderfully smooth to the touch and looks fantastic. Sideboard Soleil is beautiful...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Brass, Bronze, Copper
French Louis XV Style Mahogany Bombe Chest of Drawers
Located in San Francisco, CA
A large scale French Louis XV style three drawer mahogany bombe chest of drawers with inlay detail. The shapely front with original cast bronze mo...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XV Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Modern Sideboard or Console Table in black ash, Brass, Bronze, Copper
Located in Riga, LV
The “100 H20” sideboard was inspired by the famous architect Hundertwasser, the opponent of “a straight line”. The title “100 H20” is after Hundertwasser (hundred water– from German). The “100 H20” sideboard has plenty of details that reveal the craftsmanship involved in its production. The visible, expertly crafted details are a pleasure to behold, day after day. The drawers are asymmetric in a range of metal varieties, such as copper, brass and bronze, featured with different shaped handles. Spider style...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Copper
19th Century French Walnut Commode
Located in Winter Park, FL
An early 19th century French commode made of solid walnut with an arbalète, or crossbow front and serpentine sides. Two deep dovetailed drawers with original bronze hardware. Locks a...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Pair Hand-Made Custom French Bronze Mounted Cherry and Ebonized Commodes
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
For customers that require professional insured delivery we are proud to have teamed up with a nationwide professional delivery company that will assist with coordinating your delive...
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Early 2000s French Louis XVI Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$7,996 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Exceptional 18th Century Regence Period Lyonnaise Commode Galbée
Located in Birmingham, AL
Exceptional and rare early 18th century Regence period Lyonnaise commode galbé (curved), handcrafted from select French walnut by master artisans in ...
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1720s French Regency Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Period Louis XVI Painted Two-Drawer Commode with Gilt Accents
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Period Louis XVI commode, having an ivory-painted finish with gilt accents, two stacked drawers with bronze pulls and escutcheons, flanked by fluted, round styles. Its front and side...
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1780s European Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
A fine 19th c French ormolu-mounted commode a vantaux. Argentina Signed
Located in Dallas, TX
Argentina ,molded breche Orientale de Baixas marble top, mahogany and burlwood ,the case set with three frieze drawers, the center drawer applied with garlands, the flanking drawers ...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
20th Century French Louis XV Marble-Top Bombe Chest or Commode with Two Drawers
Located in Miami, FL
A fine Louis XV two-drawer commode with Breche d’Alep marble conforming top in shades of pink and grey with molded edge and notched corners, all with rosewood and tulipwood crossband...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XV Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Louis XVI Commode by Pierre Roussel
Located in New Orleans, LA
Matchless style and high-quality craftsmanship are the hallmarks of Pierre Roussel's furniture, and this exceptional Louis XVI-era commode epitomizes this master craftsman's skill. Crafted of rosewood veneer with a violet wood frame and intricate parquetry inlay, the cabinet's graceful design is also highly practical. The compact form holds two drawers, one of which can be locked for added security. A specimen of marble provides the perfect surface, while bronze ormolu mounts add an additional hint of luxury to the drawers and body. Elegantly curved cabriole legs with bronze ormolu shoes complete this impeccable piece.
Known for his superior craftsmanship, Roussel was a highly respected maître ébéniste of the 18th century. His furniture pieces were favoured by grand patrons such as the Prince de Condé and the Princess of Monaco...
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Hollywood Regency Style Commode, Chest, or High Board, Louis XVI, Bronze, French
Located in Manhasset, NY
Hollywood Regency Style Commode, Chest, or High Board, Louis XVI, Bronze, French. 19th Century
Louis XVI commode fully refinished in a...
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Early 1900s French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Pair of neoclassical Italian chests of drawers in inlaid wood, XVIII century
Located in Vicenza, IT
This exceptional pair of Italian neoclassical 18th century dressers in wood richly inlaid on the front, sides and 4 truncated pyramid legs are top-quality example of Italian 18th century cabinetmaking. The pair of commodes are originals from the second part of the 18th century (1780).
The front of the pair of commodes is divided into three levels of drawers, two thinner ones at the top and bottom and a thicker central one. This arrangement makes the front of the pair of drawers even more elegant.
On the front of the central drawer stands a large oval with two mirror-image neoclassical figures represented. Rich and complex foliate motifs start from the oval and extend gracefully across the entire surface. Corresponding to the upper and lower drawers, both frontally and laterally, runs a band with inlays depicting classical style garlands with ribbons, cameos and phytomorphic elements. On the side, inside geometric figures created through the combination of various wood essences there are other garlands and recurring elements in the inlays of the neoclassical period.
The pillars are also inlaid with floral and leaf decorations. The four truncated pyramid legs are also inlaid.
These eighteenth-century Italian chests of drawers were exhibited at the Triennale Museum in Milan on the occasion of the exhibition "Il Salone, la città", which took place in conjunction with the "Salone del Mobile" in Milan. We have all the documentation attesting to this museum exhibition.
The dressers are entirely inlaid with the use of different wood essences. The inlaid surfaces have also been pyrographed and burnished and are in excellent condition. This very refined technique allows you to create greater definition of the decorations, giving three-dimensionality and chiaroscuro to the drawings. With a dark background, the elegant inlays create neoclassical designs inspired by the taste of the time and the famous furniture of the Lombard cabinetmaker Giuseppe Maggiolini di Parabiago, who brought the inlay technique applied to neoclassical furniture to the highest levels.
The marble top is contemporary. The handles and mouthpieces of the locks, also original, are in gilded bronze.
The neoclassical furniture of the eighteenth century
The last quarter of the eighteenth century coincides with the affirmation of the neoclassical taste, in opposition to the previous rococo or baroque style, particularly widespread and appreciated in Lombardy. An echo of this transition is visible in Maggiolini's first works, namely rounded chests...
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Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Zebra Head Chest of Drawers with Zebra Skin
Located in Paris, FR
Chest of drawers Zebra Head with structure in solid beechwood.
coated with real Burchell Zebra Skin. With zebra head perfectly
reconstituted in flat on the top. With two real Koud...
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21st Century and Contemporary French Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Louis XVI Marquetry Commode
Located in Winter Park, FL
An 18th century French Louis XVI marquetry commode inlaid with veneers of mahogany, walnut and rosewood. Original Languedoc marble top. Two...
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Gorgeous French Walnut Carved Bronze Mounted Louis XV Nightstand Commode
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
French Louis XV style 3 drawer commode. 3 dovetail drawers. Brass hardware and mounts.
Dimensions: 33 1/8" h x 25 1/4" w x 18 7/8" d
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Early 1900s French Louis XV Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Laurameroni "Maxima" Modern Chest of Drawers in Bronze Liquid Metal
Located in Monza, IT
Wooden chest of drawers with Maxima carved drawers and structure covered in liquid metal bronze. Equipped with 2 external drawers and 2 internal drawers. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
19th Century French Louis XV Style Commode or Chest
Located in Houston, TX
19th Century French Louis XV Style Commode or Chest.
This stunning French Louis XV style ebonized two drawer chest has beautiful gilt bronze hardware and the original locks and key....
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
French Louis XVI Style Gilt Bronze-Mounted Mahogany Chinese Lacquered Cabinet
Located in New York, NY
A spectacular antique French Louis XVI style gilt bronze mounted mahogany Chinese lacquered double door cabinet embellished with C...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XIV Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
$60,000 Sale Price
20% Off
French Louis XV Style Marble Top Marquetry Commode
Located in Winter Park, FL
An early 20th century French Louis XV style bronze mounted marble top marquetry commode, finely crafted of solid mahogany with inlaid veneers of walnut, mahogany and various exotic w...
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Early 20th Century French Louis XV Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Commode Style Boulle of French 19th Century Napoleon III Period
Located in Warsaw, PL
This elegant commode is a fine example of 19th-century French craftsmanship, executed in the style of André-Charles Boulle, the renowned 17th-century cabinetmaker. The commode featur...
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19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Exquisitely Carved Walnut Louis XV Chest of Drawers
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Superb French Louis XV walnut commode or chest of drawers having 3 spacious drawers with exquisite carving on each drawer front featuring inset shell centered among floral and acanth...
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Late 18th Century French Louis XV Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Pierre-Antoine Foullet Attr., French Louis XV, Important Commodes, 19th Century
By Pierre-Antoine Foullet
Located in Manhasset, NY
Pair of 19th century king and queen compatible marble-top commodes. Each having a white and grey serpentine marble top above two deep drawers decorated sans traverse and ormolu mount...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
$56,250 Sale Price / set
50% Off
18th Century Italian Pink Louis XVI Capodimonte Chest
Located in Houston, TX
Extremely rare 18th Century Italian Louis XV style six drawer jewelry chest enveloped with velvet, encrusted with hand made pink Capodimonte porcelain and bronze ormolu.
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18th Century Italian Louis XV Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Swedish Baroque Style 19th Century Gray Serpentine Front Three-Drawer Chest
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Swedish Baroque style serpentine front three-drawer chest from the 19th century with light gray painted finish, marbleized top and turned feet. This 19th-century Swedish Baroque st...
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19th Century Swedish Baroque Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
18th Century Louis XVI Period Marquetry Commode
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A very fine marble-topped commode, with elegant marquetry-fronted drawers and bronze ormolu mounts. This handsome little chest of drawers dates from the Louis XVI Period, late 18th c...
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18th Century French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
19th Century French Empire Marble Top Carved Walnut Commode Chest of Drawers
Located in Dallas, TX
This elegant fruitwood chest of drawers was crafted in France, circa 1860. The traditional commode sits on round columnar feet over a straight bottom plinth, and is embellished on both sides by carved round columns with decorative bronze rings at the neck and base. The cabinet features three drawers across the front with the original bronze pulls and key holes escutcheons, and a fourth additional drawer under the marble top. The surface is dressed with the original black marble top. This chest is in excellent condition commensurate with age and use, and adorns a rich walnut patina. The Empire style cabinet...
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Mid-19th Century French Empire Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Directoire Chest of Drawers with white Marble Top, France circa 1800
Located in New York, NY
A neoclassical ebonised three-drawer commode with a white marble top with rounded corners. The corners of the chest are also rounded, fluted and decorated with gilded pipes at the bo...
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Early 19th Century French Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Rare Pair of Louis XVI Commodes in Mahogany with Carrara Marble Tops, Altona
Located in Kastrup, DK
A rare pair of Louis XVI commodes from Altona, crafted in solid mahogany with beautiful grain patterns.
Each features three gently curved drawers with original gilt bronze handles an...
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Late 18th Century Danish Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Carrara Marble, Bronze
20th Century Directoire-Style Chest of Seven Drawers with Bronze Pulls, France
Located in Miami, FL
Seven-drawered French chest of drawers or Semainiere, dresser. The chest shows fluted three-quarter columns on the corners and a beautiful walnut.
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Early 20th Century French Georgian Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Painted Portuguese Commode
Located in Charleston, SC
A charming painted rustic Portuguese commode with two small over one long drawer, whimsically shaped frieze and sides standing on long tapered legs
P...
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Early 1900s Portuguese Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Retro Style Chest of drawers with Brass, Copper, Bronze Drawers
Located in Riga, LV
In a stunning design, the Infinity 12-drawer dresser is crafted from ash veneer with a smooth matte finish. Brass, copper and bronze drawer fronts are finished with patina in vintage...
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21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Brass, Bronze, Copper
19th Century French Empire Walnut Commode
Located in Madrid, ES
A rare French Empire period chest of drawers, in walnut wood with keyholes and gilded brass handles, the chest of drawers has two drawers and a top secret at the top, the sides are f...
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Early 19th Century French Empire Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
$3,247 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century French Petite Commode Side Cabinet / Louis XVI Style
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Step into a realm of unrivaled grandeur with this extraordinary 19th century French petite commode sideboard cabinet, masterfully crafted in the esteemed Louis XVI style. Every deta...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Rho Mobili Italian Made Inlaid Bronze Mounted Demilune Louis XVI Style Commode
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Rho Mobili of Italy has been one of the world's best and most noteworthy furniture manufacturers for the Emirates, heads of state, Famous Celebrities and noteworthy Dukes and Duchess...
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2010s Italian Louis XVI Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
18th Century French Walnut Regence Commode with Three Drawers
Located in Los Angeles, CA
18th century French Walnut Regence Three-Drawer Commode with Bronze Mountings. Key included. From the Estate of Hal Wallis.
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18th Century and Earlier French Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Antique French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Bow Front Bombe Demilune Commode Chest
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Bow Front Bombe Demilune Commode Chest. Item featured is a lower height, shapely demilune form, remarkable cast bronze ormolu and feet, 2 swin...
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Early 1900s Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Pair of French Louis XVI Style Mid 20th Century Leather Covered Commodes
Located in Stamford, CT
Pair of French Louis XVI style leather wrapped commodes with bronze mounts. This handsome and elegant pair of large-scale chests of drawers are covered in leather with tooled gilt di...
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Mid-20th Century French Louis XVI Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Italian Louis XVI Chest of Drawers, Lombardy 1780-1790
Located in Kastrup, DK
Italian Louis XVI chest of drawers from Lombardy, 1780-1790.
Three drawers. Original thick mirror-cut walnut veneer with marquetry work on t...
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Late 18th Century Italian Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Louis XVI Style Commode after the Model by Leleu by François Linke, circa 1910
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
An important Louis XVI style gilt bronze-mounted commode, after the model by Jean-Francois Leleu by François Linke.
French, circa 1910.
Linke index number: 1127.
Linke title: 'Commode Louis XVI, Bois d'amarante et de rose.'
Signed ‘Linke’ to the right-hand side chute.
This distinguished commode is quarter veneered in mahogany with bois de violette banding and boxwood stringing. It is furnished with finely cast gilt-bronze mounts and surmounted by a brèche violette marble top.
It appears that Linke bought the rights to make this commode from the Vente Cueunières in 1902, although there is no trace of it being made by him until the summer of 1908 and there is no entry in the Blue Daybooks for this model. The green registres have two pages devoted to the making of the commodes, the first at a cost of 1,540 and 40 centimes, with eight more made in the intervening years, the last, a pair, in 1927 with the cost price escalating to 8,529 francs. The registre is not entirely clear, but it appears that Clément Linke, father and son, made the locks for this model. The cabinetmaking was exclusively by Guntren who took 496 hours per commode, paid 85 centimes in 1908 rising to 5 francs 75 cents for the last pair. Linke priced this commode at 3,000 French francs, noting in his book 'original est de Leleu est à Trianon.'
The original commode by Leleu, on loan from the Petit Trianon, is shown in a line engraving in the retrospective part of the Exposition de l' Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, 1882, De Champeau & Others, 'Les arts du bois,' pub. Quantin, 1883, p. 80. The commode entered the Petit Trianon in 1867 on the occasion of an earlier exhibition dedicated to the memory of Marie-Antoinette, organised under the patronage of the Empress Eugénie.
Jean-François Leleu
A pupil and later collaborator with Jean-François Oeben, Jean-François Leleu became maître on the latter’s death in 1763. His work can be divided into two concurrent but distinct styles: the first owing more to the legacy of Oeben, being of large, solid forms, more noble in style; the second, although retaining the clean, definite lines of the first, being an exercise in elegance and understatement. It is this second style for which Leleu is chiefly remembered and which the present commode, with its lightly bombé form and restrained frieze mounts, is a principal example.
Literature:
Payne, Christopher. François Linke, 1855-1946, The Belle Epoque of French Furniture, (woodbridge, UK), 2003; p. 502, for the black and white cliché of index number 1127
Meyer, Jonathan. Great Exhibitions, Antique Collectors club, (Woodbridge, UK), 2006; p. 298 - 300.
Pradère, Alexandre. French Furniture Makers; p. 340, fig. 398; and P.
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Early 20th Century French Louis XVI Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Style Mahogany Commode Secretary with Bronze
Located in Fayetteville, AR
This mid-nineteenth century French Louis XVI style commode secretary features fluted bronze columns at the corners with striated bronze plaques above and below. Additional bronze ban...
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Mid-19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
Large Art Deco trouser chest – France 1925
Located in Girona, Girona
Large Art Deco trouser chest, solid mahogany and maple with bird’s eye maple veneer, six drawers and two doors opening onto a mahogany interior, nickel-plated bronze handles, french ...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Bronze Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Materials
Bronze
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