LOUIS XV PERIOD CHEST OF DRAWERS Attributed to Gilles Joubert, trace of a stamp, probably Roger Vandecruse dit Lacroix or RVLC Satinwood, violetwood and amaranth veneer, chased and gilt bronze ornamentation with a crowned C, veined grey marble top, front inlaid with crosses opening on two drawers, cambered legs ending in bronze sabots, two traces of a very faded stamp (...) L.C and several JME hallmarks on the front left jamb. H. 88.5 cm (39 ¾ in.) l. 126.5 cm (49 ¾ in.) P. 66 cm (30 in.) The hallmark with the crowned C was applied to bronze works between March 1745 and February 1749. A Louis XV gilt-bronze mounted, satinwood, kingwood and amaranth commode, attributed to Gilles Joubert, probably stamped by Roger Vadrecruse, called Lacroix or RVLC * Information for buyers : If you are leaving the EU, you may need to obtain a CITES re-export certificate, which is the responsibility of the future buyer. * Information to buyers : For an exit from the EU, a CITES re-export certificate will be necessary, at the buyer's expense. The probable presence of Roger Lacroix's stamp on this chest of drawers, which stylistically predates the date on which Lacroix became a master in 1755, is an interesting example of the practice of sub-contracting under the Ancien Régime. In fact, our chest of drawers is more closely related to the work of Gilles Joubert. He was admitted to the mastery during the Regency period, well before the use of the stamp was imposed by the statutes of 1743, and began working for the Garde-Meuble de la Couronne in 1748, later becoming the King's cabinetmaker. The scale of the orders he received forced him to subcontract some of his production to his colleagues; this is how a number of the pieces delivered by Joubert for the Garde Meuble de la Couronne came to be stamped by Roger Lacroix or Mathieu Criaerd. A chest of drawers stamped by Gilles Joubert with an inlaid lattice decoration set in a comparable amaranth frieze, as well as the same bronze falls and the same bronze on the apron, sold at Christie's Paris on 19 December 2007, lot 418 (see fig. 1). The very discreet presence of Lacroix's stamp suggests that the cabinetmaker worked at Joubert's request, acting as restorer.