An extraordinary French Louis XV Régence style gilt-ormolu-mounted parquetry commode à pipée des oiseaux after the celebrated model by Charles Cressent by Maison Millet circa 1720, Paris
The serpentine marble top above a pair of drawers inlaid with trellis parquetry, centered by ormolu urn flanked by reclining putti and courting doves on oak branches and foliate ormolu works above a serpentine scalloped apron centered by a fine burnished leafy shell cartouche, the angles with crossed oak trunks with a putto to each angle holding a bird, raised on four cabriole tapering legs with leafy ormolu oak-trunk front cast sabots.
Ref#CC43R
130 x 85 x 50 cm