French Louis XV Style Inlaid and Bronze Commode After Roger Vandercruse Lacroix

Description

This is a superbly crafted commode in the style of Roger Vandercruse Lacroix. The commode features luscious inlay of mixed … more This is a superbly crafted commode in the style of Roger Vandercruse Lacroix. The commode features luscious inlay of mixed woods including satinwood, walnut and kingwood. The design, profusely adorned with the finest bronze ormolu is surmounted with a superb slab of merlot, yellow ochre and rose hued marble on top. The commode is labeled "made in France" and is in good antique condition with minor signs of age and use. Nothing significant to mention. Dates to the 1940s era.

Dimensions: 36.75 inches high x 62.5 inches wide x 22.25 inches deep

Roger Vandercruse Lacroix (1728–1799), often known as Roger Vandercruse, was a Parisian ébéniste whose highly refined furniture spans the rococo and the early neoclassical styles. According to Salverte, he "is counted among the great ebenistes of his generation (compta parmi les grands ebenistes de sa generation)."[1]

Roger Vandercruse Lacroix, like many outstanding Parisian cabinetmakers since the mid-seventeenth century, was of Low Countries stock,[2] fully acclimatized in Paris, where he was part of a network of outstanding craftsmen: he was the son of a cabinet-maker in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, and the brother of a clock-maker; in 1749 his sister married Jean-François Oeben, the great ébéniste and mechanicien, whose workshop stock R.V.L.C.— as he stamped his pieces—[3] finished after Oeben's death in 1763, including pieces designed for Oeben's patron, the marquise de Pompadour. His sister, Oeben's widow, then married the foreman Jean-Henri Riesener, royal cabinet-maker to Louis XVI. less