Lot 202: A RARE GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY COMMODE EN CONSOLE ATTRIBUTED TO HUBERT HANSEN LOUIS XV, MID 18TH CENTURY

87cm high, 90cm wide, 46cm deep; 2ft 10 1/2in., 2ft. 11 1/2in., 1ft, 6in.

with a shaped brèche oriental marble top, with a serpentine drawer, on cabriole legs terminating in gilt-bronze sabots, the whole with with gilt-bronze scrolled cartouches and quarter-veneered, with a label inscribed on the reverse `Mr Colombel'',

PROVENANCE

Sold as lot 407, Christie's, Monaco, 17th June 2000 (1,302,500FF).

NOTE

These types of commode en console were often placed between windows or opposite a fireplace and are extremely rare. The marchand-mercier Lazare-Duvaux delivered to the Dauphin, the son of Louis XV in 1757, a pair of this type of console.

A large commode en console stamped Hansen, formerly in the Collection of the Earl of Rosebery, was sold by Sotheby's, London, from the British Rail Pension Pension Fund, as lot 10, 24th November 1988, reproduced here in fig. 1. The bronzes on the former commode are identical to those on the cartouches on the offered commode.

An example of a commode en console stamped BVRB in Japanese lacquer coming from the Greffulhe collection is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Hubert Hansen received Master 1747.