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The following images, taken from our archives, illustrate a small selection of pieces we have handled over the past 60 years and which have given us special pleasure and enjoyment. Either for the pieces themselves, their origins or the collections in which they have been placed. A Pierre Langlois Commode
Height: 32" 8 Icm A George III rosewood, kingwood and ormolu mounted commode of superb colour and patination and of excellent design. Of serpentine shaped with chevron bandings, the top with an oval central panel with an inlaid basket of fruit above three graduated drawers each similarly inlaid with floral sprays. The shaped sides having oval panels with inlaid flowering urns and the commode with ormolu mounts to the edge of the top, the sides and standing on ormolu sabot feet. The drawers retaining their original ormolu handles and escutcheons. English, Circa 1765 The fashion for inlaid and ormolu enriched furniture was accentuated by the French ebeniste, Pierre Langlois. Based in Tottenham Court Road, London, from the 1750's, Langlois specialised in furniture which, according to his trade advertisement, 'enjolivee de ornement de bronze doree'.
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