Chest of drawers with cut sides and central projection, Paris, Louis XVI period.

Interesting model of chest of drawers marking the evolution of styles between the end of the Transition and the beginning of Louis XVI, retaining the cut sides on the earlier uprights very used under the Transition, our chest of drawers marks the arrival of the Louis XVI style with a base Inspiring antique pilasters, straight and protruding, providing a very elegant and quite rare visual, we indeed find little convenience with this scheme, the evolution of styles advancing rapidly we will quickly see the sheathed foot appear which will support the vast majority of Louis XVI chests of drawers.

The chest of drawers also retains a very Transitional architecture with its facade with a clearly marked projection, often called a double projection.

The veneer work is well inspired by antiquity with simulated grooves on the cut sides of the front uprights as well as the use of so-called “Greek” fillet on the drawer fronts.

The woods used are called "precious" they are exotic woods very fashionable in the second half of the 18th century, the cabinetmaker used rosewood connected in rafters and in 4 open leaves, amaranth was used for the flower beds and the nets, boxwood and green-tinted maple are the only indigenous species used to form the nets, the cabinetmaker also used satin cut on backing to veneer large panels on the sides, this veneer is connected to 4 open sheets, all the wood used is sawn in the rising grain.

Dating from the very beginning of Louis XVI, this chest of drawers built in oak and fir was made in a Parisian workshop, we find equivalent models stamped by Martin Ohneberg master in 1773 and Jean-Georges Schlichtig master in 1765 both present on some of their convenient feature of pilaster upright as on our model.

This chest of drawers which was manufactured in the years 1775, it was born like many with 5 drawers in 3 rows, this distribution was modified during its history probably in the 19th century, in order to correspond to a need and offering functionality of most interesting storage, since it opens with 9 drawers in 3 rows, this perfectly executed work giving the chest of drawers more drawers than a weekly drawer was created without modifying the exterior visual of the piece of furniture, while retaining all of the old wood drawers, the wood added for this operation is oak and has the same patina which makes this modification very discreet.

The piece of furniture is topped with its period marble, a thick veined gray, molded with a groove around the edge, this marble retains its original depth with the overhang necessary to fill the thickness of a chair rail.

Furniture in good condition, completely cleaned with varnish, without alteration offering beautiful veneer colors.

Marble dimensions:

Height: 84.5 cm

Width: 129.5 cm

Depth: 64.5 cm (with the 30 mm rear overhang for chair rail)

Ref: 67I9N8NK6S