EFTA00607883Set 9
5p2,545w
PERIOD ORMOLU-MOUNTED
COROMANDEL LACQUER AND BLACK GILT-JAPANNED SERPENTINE
COMMODES
ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE LANGLOIS
English, circa 1770
Each veneered overall with panels of Chinese incised "Coromandel" lacquer, bordered
with ... this at the time
was the emigrant French cabinet-maker, or ebeniste Pierre Langlois. The little that is
known of his career is recorded by Peter Thornton and William Rieder ... found in Thomas Mortimer's Universal Director of 1763 where it
is stated "Langlois performs all sorts of curious inlaid work, particularly commodes in
the foreign taste, inlaid with tortoiseshell
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EFTA01088921Set 9
30p15,230w
repr. in &instill's*); Ca Meek de musique
MS% 1830-1930, ed. Frank Langlois (Paris: Acres Sud, 2004), 239-52.
35. Nabob's; The by, 71.
36. Ibid
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