A fine French provincial burr walnut veneered three-drawer Louis XVI commode. The sides have fluted pilasters above turned tapering fluted legs. Having a Nero Portoro marble top. Stamped COURTE. – Jean Baptiste Courte (20 September 1749 – 28 April 1843)
France, circa 1780
Height: 86 cms (34 ins)
Width: 124 cms (49 ins)
Depth: 56 cms (22 ins)
Jean-Baptiste Courte (1749–1843), born Jean-Baptiste Kurth in Medelsheim, was a master cabinet-maker who settled in Dijon and was admitted to the guild in 1777. Marrying into the Sesseley family of ébénistes, he became an influential figure in Burgundy’s furniture trade, producing finely crafted commodes, bureaux plats and chests in the elegant Louis XVI style. His work is distinguished by its neoclassical symmetry, refined veneers in mahogany, walnut and exotic woods, and delicately chased gilt-bronze mounts. Though less well known than the Parisian masters, Courte’s stamped pieces remain highly prized today for their proportion, craftsmanship and embodiment of the sober refinement that marked the transition to neoclassicism in late 18th-century France.
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