Antique French Parquetry Ormolu Marble Top Louis XVI Commode Chest Drawers 1880 Drawings & Prints hand-painted with tethered birds of

hand-painted with tethered birds of prey

designed to appeal to collectors and art enthusiasts

The front legs of carved block tapering form

His most significant and ambitious postwar commission took place in 1965 when the novelist and Minister of Cultural Affairs André Malraux invited him to paint the ceiling of the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris

and sometimes otherworldly

Antique French Parquetry Ormolu Marble Top Louis XVI Commode Chest Drawers 1880 Drawings & Prints hand-painted with tethered birds ofSOLD A fine French antique Louis XVI transitional style kingwood, mahogany and tulipwood parquetry inlaid, with ormolu mounts and marble top commode, circa 1880. This very fine antique French commode having a black & white veined "Noir Antique" contoured marble top, below are three drawers with gilt bronze borders and ormolu circular laurel leaf shaped handles surmounted with a garlanded bow and flanked with a pair of ormolu corbel brackets. Below are