Commode

Martin Criaerd French
 Former Attribution Antoine-Mathieu Criaerd French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 529

The most prominent member of a large family of cabinetmakers, Mathieu Criaerd specialized in furniture veneered with Asian lacquer or European imitation lacquer and is known to have worked for the marchands merciers Thomas-Joachim Hébert and Nicolas Héricourt. Once thought to be veneered with Japanese lacquer, the surface of this commode was actually decorated in France in imitation of Japanese black and gold lacquer of about 1670–1680.

Commode, Martin Criaerd (French, 1689–1776), Oak veneered with ebonized and lacquered wood; gilt bronze; Rance marble, French, Paris

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Commode, Martin Criaerd (French, 1689–1776), Oak veneered with ebonized and lacquered wood; gilt bronze; Rance marble, French, Paris
Commode, Martin Criaerd (French, 1689–1776), Oak veneered with ebonized and lacquered wood; gilt bronze; Rance marble, French, Paris

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