Large Louis XV Period Walnut Chest Of Drawers With Embossed Front In Blond Walnut

A rare and exceptional piece that this imposing and decorative chest of drawers in solid blond walnut called sauteuse presents two generous drawers with slides on the very fat arched and saboted feet. This piece of furniture which comes from a Chateau in the southwest of France is of a rare elegance and has the fleshy faith and a beautiful ornamental balance as desired. Well built and healthy this beautiful piece has always been maintained and has undergone interventions of common use for this period (around 1750), Toulouse region. The rounded (convex) curve of the lower drawer responds to the concave front of the upper drawer, emphasizing by its shape the beauty of the generous top with rounded corners and a bec-de-corbin on the front, the solid and elegant feet with a beautiful "whiplash" contributed by their robustness to thick and solid uprights, the sides are the replicas of the front of the drawers reproducing identically, very prominent their beautiful movement? The neat and paneled bottoms pegged together by a construction of robust crosspieces; the front crosspiece contributes to the beauty of this piece decorated with a three-canopy movement, the drawers are moved by the rich swinging handles in bronze with puddles