Found in Avignon and originally from a chateau in Normandy, this 19th-century commode is a serious piece of Norman Louis XV cabinetwork, made in the dressier tradition of the northern French chateau rather than the country tradition of the south. The serpentine front curves three times across, and each of the three drawers is carved with a pair of shaped cartouches around the original fire-gilt brass pulls and a center keyhole escutcheon, the kind of small armor a chateau commode was given to mark the importance of what it held. Sylvie places it in a bedroom against a tall wall with a vase of garden roses on top and the morning light coming in across it.
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