Louis XV Commode

Does anyone have any idea of the age of my Louis XV commode? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

no.......but really good photo's.......THANK YOU !!!!!!

 

I thinnk I am seeing plywood there. Hollywood regency? It is a 20th C reproduction and possibly 1960s.

 

I'm not seeing any plywood, but I am seeing hand-cut dovetails. I don't think it's Louis XV, but it may well be 19th century. Do oak drawer sides mean anything, date-wise?

 

I sure thought it plywood as well. Good quality reproductions are still made by hand.The color of the top makes me think 1960s as well,but a nice quality one.

 

Louis XV style might be better said. Looks to be a modern Italian import. Here are two that recently sold at auction.

http://www.antiquehelper.com/catalog-search?q=italian&page=35&sort=

Debora

 

I don't believe this is a modern import based on the dovetail construction and inlay/veneer work. The only item that tells me that its 20th C is the possible use of plywood. Anyone know when plywood was first used in furniture construction.

 

Plywood appears in the 1930s. But the style was bang out of fashion then. 'Opulent' looking stuff re-appeared with economic recovery a couple of decades after WWII.

 

Hi,
The wood grain in the drawer bottoms would be going front to back in older pieces. Newer ones have the side to side grain.
greg

 

It wouldn't be called a commode here. Where's the po' go?

 

Thanks for everyone's help in helping me on this piece. Here are some other photos.

 

I am with the others. Fairly modern. Post-war Italy is likely.

 

The only place I see what appears to be plywood, is the drawer bottom.
Does it appear to have been replaced?

 

For some reason the picture didn't post.

 

The drawer bottom is the only part that appears to be plywood and I have no idea if it's a replacement. I'm wondering if there is anything in the construction process, besides the drawer bottom, that says modern. If someone was basing the age on the dovetail construction, what age would one think?

 

Here's a photo of the interior.

 

I'm not the furniture expert that @verybrad is.
Just looking at the inside with quarter sawn oak, I would think this is an older piece.

Brad -
Would Italy use quarter sawn oak as the interior wood?
I'm thinking from the construction, this might be earlier. 1920s French maybe.

Look at the caps on the feet
https://www.google.com/search?q=Fre...wGMKHYEaC2YQ_AUICigB&biw=1224&bih=884#imgrc=_

 

That back piece is most certainly a plywood panel. Note how the grain inside does not match the grain outside. While quartersawn oak plywood is a fairly expensive material, it was likely a scrap that was used here. I also see this marble top as too varied to have been selected for use in an earlier period. While some wild marble was used, it tended to be more homogenous than this. I don't like the color on the hardware, nor scale of the handles. Think they should be larger.

 

I had not noticed that. Thanks.