Antique French Louis XV Marble Top Ormolu Bombe Shape Inlaid Tulip-Wood Commode 1900 Decorative Arts painted on an ivory wafer

painted on an ivory wafer and signed "Smart" to the lower right hand side

shortly after working on a commission for First Presbyterian Church

Clausen was a founding member of the New English Art Club in 1886

each having brass bail handles

50" x 28" x 1"

Antique French Louis XV Marble Top Ormolu Bombe Shape Inlaid Tulip-Wood Commode 1900 Decorative Arts painted on an ivory waferA fine quality antique French Louis XV style marble top & ormolu mounted tulipwood & kingwood bombe shape commode chest, circa 1900. The serpentine shaped top having the original variegated green & rust brown marble, the chest having two deep drawers with gilt bronze rococo handles & lock plates, the top edges of the commode having ormolu brackets. The commode is of bombe form with feathered walnut & tulip woods and inlaid with satinwood stringing to