Item features Neo-Baroque Boulle Commode

Neo-Baroque Boulle Commode 

We present you a 19th-century commode, modeled on the 17th-century, 

Baroque furniture with Boulle marqueterie. 

This article of furniture is three-door, and has a top made of white Carrara marble. 

The central door is full. The outer are profiled into semicircular shape. 

Moreover, the outer doors have glazed panels, which close with an arch.

The cornice and the molding under the top are extended in comparison to the main body of the commode. 

Presented piece of furniture is French-polished in black, and richly ornamented with a marquetry 

of tortoiseshell and brass sheet cut into floral
patterns. 

The edges of the top, cornice and door panels are contoured with a brass molding.

Cartyarids of gilded bronze complement the splendor of the whole. 

The inside of each commode’s part is padded with velvet. There is also a single shelf. 

This commode is after a professional renovation. It presents itself 

spectacularly.

The craftsmanship and the type of ornamentation make this article of furniture unique, and exceptional. 

We also have other furniture in the same style, matching the set: 

a writing desk, a clock, a card table, and a smaller dresser.  

All the items are available in the Exclusives tab.

Boulle’s technique – historical overview

The name of the technique derives from the last name of the French artist-carpenter, André-Charles Boulle, who lived in 1642-1732. In truth, this marqueterie technique had been discovered by an artist who had been creating before Boulle, Pierre Golle. 

The technique was that a pattern drawn on paper was redrawn onto tightly adjacent sheets of brass and tortoiseshell, and then the pattern was cut out with a special saw. Obtained in this way were two patterns: first, cut in tortoiseshell, and second in brass. Boulle often manufactured furniture in pairs. One with marquetry of tortoiseshell inlaid with brass (Premier partie), and second, a negative of the former, cut in sheet brass inlaid with tortoiseshell (Contre partie). 

On the one hand, fragments of brass were usually shaded with engraved lines to achieve the effect of three-dimensionality. On the other hand, tortoiseshell was often dyed red or blue, by placing paper dyed in the color under the main body of the furniture. 

Furniture like this was synonymous for luxury, and only a few among the aristocracy circles of Louis XIV could afford it.

THE AUTHENTICITY (period of origin, type of material used in the

 manufacture) has been confirmed by an expert in

 vintage and antique items.

The Antique Beauty company issues a

CERTIFICATE OF EXHIBITOR on presented item which confirms

 the authenticity, legal origin, and the approximate date and

place of the item manufacture.

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