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A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED EBONY, BRASS AND TORTOISESHELL-INLAID 'BOULLE' MARQUETRY COMMODE EARLY 18TH CENTURY, ATTRIBUTED TO NICOLAS SAGEOT The rounded rectangular top inlaid with Berainesque strapwork, and exotic figures, the sides similarly inlaid, above three long drawers with espagnolete mask escutcheons, between bowed angles with conforming masks, on bifurcated feet headed by scallop shells, largely remounted and re-gilt, and with restorers numbers, the sabots stamped for Cristofle 33 ? in. (85.5 cm.) high; 47 in. (119.5 cm.) wide; 26 ? in. (68 cm.) deep
The top of this spectacular commode, decorated in première partie Boulle marquetry in brass, luxurious red tortoiseshell and is typical of the ingenious inventiveness with which Nicolas Sageot, ma?tre in 1706, created ever new designs using the 'antique' and 'arabesque' engravings of Jean Bérain (d. 1711) as his main source. The overall form of the commode and in particular its marquetry relates it closely to another commode stamped by Sageot, though with four rather than three drawers, previously in the collections of the Dukes of Newcastle and sold at Christie's, London, 16 December 1999, lot 50 (£287,500). Another closely related commode is that from the collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson, previously in the collection of the duchesse de Talleyrand, sold Sotheby's, New York, 21 May 1992, lot 69 ($385,000).