A French 19th century gilt bronze mounted bois satine, amaranth, sycamore and marquetry commode


originally retailed by Bertram & Son., after the celebrated Louis XVI model by Jean-Henri RiesenerThe later moulded marble top above three frieze drawers, over two long drawers inlaid sans traverse with a central urn of flowers, on splayed legs terminating in lion paw sabots, stamped: 'Bertram & Son., Dean St., Oxford St., W' and '04078', 141cm wide x 59cm deep x 89cm high, (55 1/2in wide x 23in deep x 35in high)
|ProvenanceBatemans, 17 June 2006, Elmslae House, Stamford.The offered lot is a fine 19th century copy of a couple of widely renowned commodes which are essentially variants of the same model produced during the period 1776-1780 by one of the most important and exceptionally gifted cabinet makers of all time, Jean-Henri Riesener. Despite closely relating to all these aforementioned Riesener originals, the present commode conforms most precisely to one housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. 1087-1882, and one which sold Christie's, Paris, 7 March 2017, Boniface de Castellane & Anna Gould: 'A Way of Life', lot 69. The former having been originally bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert by the famed 19th century collector John Jones. William Bertram is recorded as a furniture dealer based at 100 Dean Street in Soho from 1839 onwards. Documented examples of furniture retailed by Bertram and Son include various models in the fashionable French styles and 19th century revival pieces of the finest quality such as this lot, Dictionary of English Cabinet Makers, 1660-1840, p.68.LiteratureVictoria and Albert, Catalogue of the Jones Collection, Part I - Furniture, 1922, p. 11, pl. 18.Dictionary of English Furniture Makers, 1660-1840, ed. by G. Beard and C. Gilbert, 1986.