Louis (1731) Dubois Sold at Auction Prices

A GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED IVORY, POLYCHROME STAINED HORN AND MOTHER-OF-PEARL INLAID TORTOISESHELL AND BRASS CONTRE-PARTIE BOULLE MARQUETRY AND EBONY COMMODE ATTRIBUTED TO NICHOLAS SAGEOT (1666-1731), STAMPED I. DUBOIS, LOUIS XIV, CIRCA 1710, PROBABLY RESTORED BY JACQUES DUBOIS AROUND 1750 |

with a bowed gilt-bronze-banded top centred by a roundel depicting figures hunting rabbits in a landscape flanked by latticework cartouches suspending floral swags with squirrels eating nuts in the manner of Jean Berain and strapwork and scrolling foliage, with a flower-filled vase at each front corner, above two short and two long drawers inlaid with a vase of flowers flanked by scrolling foliage with spirally-twist handles terminating in a foliate cast backplate, the corners mounted with a bearded male mask entwined by a serpent and with bat's wings and scrolls, the sides similarly decorated and inlaid with a geometric cartouche, the whole applied with gilt-bronze trelliswork banding throughout on scrolled foliate cast feet