Chest Of Drawers In Rosewood Stamped Mondon

Important curved dresser rosewood veneer inlaid sheets in frames nets. It opens with 5 drawers on 3 rows. The uprights and feet are arched. The three faces are curved. Important ornaments of chiseled and gilded bronzes with foliage decoration, cartridges and umbilicals. Falls, hooves and lamp-seat. Side panels with double marquetry frame. Gray marble plate with beak of corbin. Very beautiful colors of rosewood, dresser strongly curved. Stamped by FA MONDON (François Antoine Mondon), with JME. Received Maître Ebéniste in 1757. Period Louis XV, XVIII. The father, François MONDON was born in 1694. He reached the rank of Master cabinetmaker of the Paris Jurande in 1737. Installed in the store "La Pie" in the Faubourg St Antoine like almost all cabinetmakers, he made the design of dressers its main specialty. Having started working at the time of the Regency style, he excels in the art of the rosewood domed commode mainly inlaid with violet wood. His success is such in the execution of dressers he sells even to some of his famous colleagues: MIGEON bought him three in 1743. His son, François Antoine Mondon, received master in 1757, also installed Faubourg Saint -Antoine with his father, produces furniture of very high quality taking over the work of his father, especially domed dressers inlaid rosewood pronounced curve ornamented with rich bronzes.