Antique French Parquetry Ormolu Marble Top Louis XVI Commode Chest Drawers 1880 Decorative Arts please see the last image

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the stand is structurally sound and has not been altered or repaired

Peter's Basilica

The painting depicts a scene of blue skies with two farmers tossing hay with pitchforks & two horses harnessed to a hay wagon

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1824–1887) was a prolific and celebrated French sculptor of the Second Empire

Antique French Parquetry Ormolu Marble Top Louis XVI Commode Chest Drawers 1880 Decorative Arts please see the last imageSOLD A fine French antique Louis XVI transitional style kingwood, mahogany and tulipwood parquetry inlaid, with ormolu mounts and marble top commode, circa 1880. This very fine antique French commode having a black & white veined "Noir Antique" contoured marble top, below are three drawers with gilt bronze borders and ormolu circular laurel leaf shaped handles surmounted with a garlanded bow and flanked with a pair of ormolu corbel brackets. Below are