A GALBEE-shaped COMMODE in European varnish with a black bac - Lot 88

A GALBEE-shaped COMMODE in European varnish with a black background and gilded motifs, opening with two drawers and a recessed crossbar. The front features a large lake landscape with trees, animated by characters, riders and birds. The sides are similar. The straight uprights, curved and pinched for the fronts, rest on cambered feet. Chased and gilded bronze trim: lock escutcheons, leafy handles, apron, falls and set sabots. Breche d'Alep marble top molded with a corbin and a doucine. Stamped: I DUBOIS and JME (on the base of the rear right jamb). Jacques DUBOIS (born in Pontoise circa 1693). Cited Master in 1742. Paris. Louis XV period. H_90 cm W_130 cm D_62,5 cm Cracks and lifts. Bronzes brought back at a later date. Restorations, notably to the apron of the lower drawer. Comparative works: *Christie' s. Paris. Le Goût Français. November 6, 2015. Lot 844 *J. Nicolay, L'Art et la manière des maîtres ébénistes français au XVIIIe siècle, Tome I, Paris, 1976, p.94. *P. Kjellberg, Le mobilier français du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, 1989, p. 271. *A. Forray-Carlier and M. Kopplin eds, Les secrets de la laque française : le vernis martin , Paris, 2014. Jacques Dubois was one of Paris's greatest cabinetmakers during the reign of Louis XV. Long a free-lance worker in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, he obtained his master's degree in 1742 at the age of forty-nine and pursued a brilliant career for almost twenty years in the Rue de Charenton. The King's cabinetmaker, he worked for the nobility. His workshop on rue de Charenton was taken over by his son René in 1763, who continued his father's work for a further twenty years, also enjoying a glowing reputation.