A Large, Impressive Chest, so-called commode à vantaux, France c. 1890 based on ...

A Large, Impressive Chest, so-called commode à vantaux, France c. 1890 based on a chest manufactured by GUILLAUME BEN(N)EMAN and JOSEPH STÖCKEL for Marie-Antoinette in 1786, flaring oak structure on spinning top feet, mahogany veneered and with polished finish, lavish floral bronze doré decorative mounts by LÉON KAHN (stamped on back of the bronze mounts), 2 doors with large applied medallion in so-called sans traverse execution, 3 frieze drawers, of which the middle one with bronze lion’s head, 3/4 lesenes with fluting and sheet brass applications, enclosing a high-quality fitted interior with 6 mahogany-veneered interior drawers, moulded white-grey veined marble top (with puttied fissure), c. 100 x 178 x 67 cm, in completely restored condition. (DOC)
Provenance: according to oral tradition, from the former estate of Wilhelmina Busch (American brewery dynasty Anheuser-Busch), who commissioned the building of Schloss Höhenried on Lake Starnberg in the years before the Second World War.