Louis XV Chest Of Drawers, Stamped Criaerd And Jme

A rosewood chest of drawers with a very eventful shape, opening with five drawers in three rows, the red Flanders marble top resting on curved uprights ending in arched feet. Ornamentation of bronzes with busts of women, a mask of Boreas, mustaches, chimeras and lion muzzles with hooves. Whether it is the uprights decorated with caryatids and chimeras whose tails wrap around the fall, the handles with dragon-shaped jacks, the particularly ornate lock entries with masks and the apron displaying the mask of Boreas, flanked by two acanthus volutes, all the bronze ornamentation accentuates the richness of our chest of drawers.
Stamped A Criaerd and JME, for Antoine Criaerd.
Louis XV period
H: 94.5 cm, W: 128 cm, D: 86 cm

Antoine Criaerd, of Flemish origin, is the dean of a dynasty of Parisian master cabinetmakers who practiced in 1720 and 1750. Established in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, his furniture of fine quality and made with great talent, all belong to the beginning of the 18th century. He would have worked for his famous colleague Pierre Migeon. We can mention a production of chests of drawers in amaranth veneer or leaf wood, decorated with bronze and framed in dark wood. Our chest of drawers attached is undoubtedly one of his finest creations, both for the quality of the marquetry and the choice of his bronzes.