Louis XV Commode Stamped Ln Malle

Pretty chest of drawers inlaid with rosewood in amaranth frames underlined by boxwood fillets. Opening with four drawers in three rows, it is topped with a royal red marble top and stamped LN MALLE with the Jurande JME hallmark on the field of the upper cross member of the back, beautiful ornamentation of chiseled and gilded bronzes of origin such as offcuts, clogs, handles on the profiles, keyholes and lamp base. Work of the suburb of the Transition period. Very good condition, usual restorations carried out by an experienced cabinetmaker, buffer varnish. Louis Noël MALLE (1734 - February 27, 1782) received master on November 18, 1765, renowned cabinetmaker installed rue du Faubourg Saint Antoine where he had an important workshop and a store. He made furniture adorned with decorative inlays of ebony, olive, colored wood, tortoiseshell and mother-of-pearl, and other more traditional ones using leaf veneers as our dresser. After his death his widow will keep her workshop in activity until the revolution. The discoveries of Herculaneum (1738) and Pompeii (1748) will launch the fashion for antique bronzes, the chest of drawers presented is a perfect example, on a Louis XV structure we find the handles with profiles in medallions, the entrances to ribbon bow and garland as well as the lamp base with a casserole pattern, characteristic of the Transition style.