IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 95852 accession number: M/F.11-1938 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 6 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Commode, the carcase of oak veneered with rosewood and fruitwoods, and with ormolu legs and mounts. Rectangular with one long drawer at the top and two pairs of short drawers below. The top is veneered with a marquetry panel of a landscape with ruins and figures set within a border of rosewood. The sides have panels veneered with rosewood and marqutry floral sprays. The commode is richly decorated with ormolu mounts, the top with a gadrooned border and the long drawer with three boldly cast and chased ram's heads linked by beribboned festoons of husks, with four foliate rosettes above, continuing round the sides. A reeded and banded ormolu moulding runs below the long drawer, and another at the base at the front and sides. The four lower drawers have reeded loop handles with foliate rosette backplates. Square ormolu foliate motifs at each corner of the four lower drawers, and at each corner of the side panels are linked by applied carved and gilt Greek key borders. It stands on tapering fluted and gadrooned ormolu legs. The name 'Daniel Langlois' is hand-written in red chalk on the carcase under the top drawer. object type: Commode with seven drawers, of oak, veneered with rosewood and marquetry in various woods, the top with a scene of classical ruins in a landscape, richly decorated with ormolu mounts of ram's heads, swags, and Greek key ornament, and supported on tapering ormolu legs. title: commode NOTES ----- type: history note value: Captain M. Weyland of Woodeaton, Oxfordshire; sold Christie, Manson & Woods, 2 December 1904, Old English Furniture and old Sèvres porcelain; French Furniture, lot 28, bought by testator. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Leonard D. Cunliffe creditline: L. D. Cunliffe Bequest, 1937 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/95852 PEOPLE ------------------- Weyland, M., Captain woman man SUBJECTS ------------------- Woodeaton, Oxfordshire ruin column arch rock ram tree flower ruin column arch rock ram tree flower CATEGORIES ------ category: furniture DATING ------ creation date: 1766 - 1767 creation date earliest: 1766 creation date latest: 1767 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Langlois, Pierre maker: Jean, Dominique DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 60.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 89.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 127.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasures of Cambridge title: The Age of Neo-classicism title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam CITATIONS -------- Old English Furniture and old Sèvres porcelain; French Furniture Treasures from the Fitzwilliam: ''The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation'' Daniel Langlois Chippendale Furniture. The Work of Thomas Chippendale and his Contemporaries in the Rococo Taste, Vile, Cobb, Langlois, Channon, Hallett, Ince and Mayhew, Lock, Johnson, and others circa 1745-1765 Pierre Langlois, Ebeniste, Part 5 AGM and Special Members' Meeting, 21 November 1992 Pierre Langlois: A further note on the Fitzwilliam commode The Lady Lever Art Gallery, Catalogue of Commodes Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840 Matthew Boulton: Ormolu Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum New Light on Pierre Langlois (1718-1767) Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1840 Interior Design and Furnishings at Woburn Abbey Important English Furniture --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_F_11_1938_281_29.jpg height: 621 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_M_F_11_1938_281_29.jpg height: 409 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/M_F_11_1938_281_29.jpg height: 621 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_M_F_11_1938_281_29.jpg height: 204 pixels width: 250 pixels