A late Louis XV commode, c.1763-70 (ormolu-mounted Japanese lacquer & ebony)

By Bernard II or Bernard III Van Risenburgh, the lacquer late 17th century. The eared breakfront breccia rosso e giallo marble top above a partially gadrooned cornice and a shaped frieze drawer centred by a foliate and Vitruvian-scroll panel flanked by floral paterae and mounted with fruiting laurel swags, above a panelled door depicting a Chinoiserie landscape and with leaf-cast border, flanked by further landscape panels, the sides decorated similarly, the canted angles headed by bearded bacchic masks and terminating in bracket feet mounted with foliate paterae, stamped twice 'BVRB', four times 'JME' and twice 'M', the lacquer with some vernis martin overdecoration applied when the panels were cut for this commode, the marble top possibly Italian and earlier and shaped to fit the commode at time of construction.