Mottled mahogany chest of drawers, inlaid with ebony and brass, patinated and gilded bronze, opening to five drawers with lozenge frames, the Campan marble top resting on pilaster jambs with busts of Egyptians terminating in claw feet at the front and double-baluster feet at the back (in painted wood). (restorations, the patina of the bronzes has been redone). Consulate period H: 91 cm, W: 134 cm, D: 61.5 cm The combined decoration of lion's heads, Egyptian busts and claw feet, recorded from the end of the 18th century, can be found on a number of Empire period commodes, notably one supplied by the merchant Antoine-Thibaut Baudouin in 1804 for the Fontainebleau palace (J-P. Samoyault, Meubles entrés sous le Premier Empire, Fontainebleau, Paris, 2004, p. 185). A chest of drawers with the same characteristics, attributed to Bernard Molitor by Ulrich Leben (U. Leben, Molitor, ébéniste de Louis XVI à Louis XVIII, Paris, 1992, no. 21, p. 180 and Bernard Molitor, 1755-1833, cat. exp., Luxembourg, 1995, no. 47, p. 116) is now in the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris. According to Molitor's catalogue raisonné, they can be dated to around 1800-1805.