After the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum in the second quarter of the Eighteenth Century tastes began to shift from the rocaille, or rococo, based on natural elements such as shells and plants, to a new classicism. During the shift furniture in France contained elements of both the rocaille and neoclassicism, and pieces such as this commode came to be. Notice that the marquetry has floral and geometric designs, and the form itself still has cabriole legs despite a severe geometry to the remainder of the commode.
D.William Larson Interior Design
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