Curved French Commode From The Regency Period In Marquetry And Marble Top - 18th France

Very pretty little Regency period chest of drawers, curved front in inlaid native wood veneer and solid wood. It opens with four drawers in three distinct rows. The upper row opens entirely onto 2 drawers: very original. Rounded amounts. Royal red marble top. Very beautiful ornamentation in gilded and chiseled bronze for the locks and pull handles. The dresser is graceful and elegant. Its dimensions make it an ideal piece of furniture to place in a bedroom, office, hallway, entrance or main room. Very good condition for this Regency period piece of furniture which is a vestige of French history. It is very moving to think that this piece of furniture has survived the centuries.
France - 18th century
Note: an old repair of the marble

The Regency style is a style of furniture which dates from approximately 1715 to 1723. This period is the time of the regency of Philippe d'Orléans during the minority of Louis XV. The style therefore succeeds the Louis XIV style and announces the Louis XV style. This is a transitional style. It is characterized in particular by the softening of the lines and the solemn appearance of the furniture manufactured until then, as well as by a very clear tendency towards lightness and elegance, with the invention of the curved line. Marquetry is a decoration obtained by a different arrangement of wood fibers and for which two sawing methods are used; the standing timber (concentric grooves) and the sole (oval grooves by angle sawing). The Regency style marquetry motifs are diamonds, checkerboards, bouquets of flowers, medallions, musical instruments.