French Louis XV Commode stamped M. CRIAERD

Slightly curved front.
Inlaid latticework with a diamond-point motif in violet wood.
Opens to two superimposed drawers.
The apron and its lamp base are located at the bottom of the lower drawer.
The uprights are curved and protruding.
The sides are flared and double-curved.
Once removed, the top drawer reveals a secret compartment housed in a niche closed by a thin sliding wooden board.
Magnificent ornamentation of finely chased, ungilded bronzes with symmetrical rocaille decoration, including foliage, shells, scrolls, gadroons, a grid of lozenges with florets, a fleuron and facing Cs. Rushes on the downturned edges of the front legs.
Capped with Saint Pons red molded marble that follows the curved lines of the frame.

Stamped Mathieu CRIAERD (1689-1776) - Received at the Maîtrise on July 29, 1738
Inventory mark
Parisian work from the early Louis XV period

The scraps on our chest of drawers are identical to those on the S-shaped double-bracket chest of drawers by Charles CRESSENT illustrated on page 167 in the reference monograph in Alexandre PRADERE, Charles CRESSENT, sculpteur ébéniste du Régent, Ed. Faton, Dijon 2003 and listed in the inventories of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Lyon MAD 1226.