53. 53W Commode d'époque Louis XV de Jean-Charles Saunier en marqueterie d'amarante, bois satiné, bois de violette et bois teinté vert, ornementation de bronze ciselé et doré, vers 1755 A Louis XV ormolu-mounted amaranth, bois satiné, kingwood, green-stained wood and marquetry bombé commode by Jean-Charles Saunier, circa 1755 The shaped and moulded rouge griotte marble top above two drawers inlaid sans traverse with contrasting shaped cartouches, the central one inlaid with a parrot resting on flowering branches above a pomegranate motif, flanked by shaped cartouches with floral sprays, with shaped foliate handles and pierced apron mount, the sides conformingly inlaid, above cabriole legs headed by imposing foliate ormolu chutes and terminating in small sabots, stamped twice 'I.C.SAUNIER' and twice 'JME', 103.5cm wide x 67.5cm deep x 89.5cm high, (40 1/2in wide x 26 1/2in deep x 35in high) Provenance : With Röbbig, Munich; The Rosa Alba Collection Jean-Charles Saunier, maître ébéniste in 1743. Son of the ébéniste Charles Saunier, active during the Régence and early Louis XV periods, Jean-Charles Saunier took over his father's workshop in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine and was active until the mid-1760s, helped by his own son, the better-known Claude-Charles, who had become a master in 1752 but only registered his maîtrise with the guild in 1765 upon assuming control of the family atelier.