Gilt Commodes and Chests of Drawers

A Louis XV style gilt bronze mounted mahogany Coiffeuse attributed to François Linke. French, circa 1910. François Linke (1855 - 1946) was the most important Parisian cabinet...

Italian dresser with mirror in Louis XVI style from 20th century. Furniture in beautiful line and nice decor in carved, lacquered and gilded wood. Commode with four drawers of good capacity and service with marble top in good condition. Mirror adorned with wooden garlands...

Fabulous French Regence style faux tortoise-shell painted commode. Attributed to Jensen, early 20th century. The beautifully hand painted faux red tortoise shell top is engraved ...

Handsome and elegant pair of large-scale French Louis XVI style leather wrapped commodes with bronze mounts. These impressive chests are covere...

French Mid-Century (1940s) sycamore commode / bar with column sides & a single front door having a gilt metal rope design centering a medallion figure (attributed to MAISON MERCIER FRERES).

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. Arizzoli-Clementel. Versailles Furniture...

Bronze, gilded or partly dark patinated. Marble plate, over three frying chunks and a large two-thirds chimney door, with amaranth, bergahorn and colorful fruitwood inserted front an...

Beautiful Italian Commode from the 1950s, Painted and Gilded, very Well-Made.

A one of kind cabinet with drawers crafted by Mexican artist Pedro Friedeberg (1937-). It features a red and gilt cabinet or chest of drawers supported by ten red-painted legs and gilt feet. Three tiers of drawers display a graduate width and retain the original bronze hardware pulls...

This fine, delicately ornamented commode was built by French designers Myrtil Dennery and Paul Alexandre who were active in the early 20th century, after the 18th Century model by ce...

Chic Louis XVI style neoclassical commode by Maison Jansen. Elegant and simple. The last picture gives an example of how this commode could look in situ.

Handsome, two-door, burl veneered cabinet surmounted by a single drawer above. The face is framed by ebonized, parcel gilt pillars and features str...

A very fine French 19th century Louis XV style mahogany, kingwood and stainwood ormolu-mounted marquetry two-door Meuble D'Appui attributed to either Joseph-Emmanuel Zwiener or Zwien...

Elegant French Mid-Century patinated mirrored cabinet, commode, chest of drawers, console or credenza in the modern neoclassical style of Serge Roche. The piece has a diamond cut pat...