A transitional French marquetry commode, after the model by Pierre Antoine Foullet, late 19th century, with featured molded and shaped marble top above ormolu engraved bands on two small drawers to each side supported by a conforming case of two larger drawers, with ormolu mounts ornamentation of ormolu bands, foliate ormolu mounts and ribbons, light and dark inlays of marquetry and veneers raised on cabriole legs with foliate ormolu cast sabots.

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140 x 98 x 60 cm

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Pierre-Antoine Foullet

Son of Antoine Foullet, Pierre-Antoine Foullet, cabinetmaker, marqueteur, wins his letters master in 1765. He started working in his father's workshop in rue du Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, but following a bankruptcy filing in 1769, he resumed his activity in the rue de Charonne, where he will remain until about the 1780s. It is unclear whether he worked with his father but its production is abundant, composed mainly of chests is very close to a chest of drawers of Transition style, preserved in the museum of Stockholm and bearing the stamp of Antoine Foullet.

These convenient, given the large number of copies produced certainly have to be a real success and are very easily recognizable. They are all decorated with pilasters, highlighting a wide projection central with medallions oval inlaid vases, flowers, garlands, scenes galantes of ancient columns support pots of fire... A very rich ornamentation of bronze gives them a luxury character. In addition to its convenient, especially typed, Pierre-Antoine Foullet (a product of furniture is very various such as corner cupboards, writing tables and bureaux de style Louis XV, Transition and Louis XVI, books, more classical but still of a very high quality of workmanship.

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