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Commode veneered with satinwood, set within superb gilt bronze mounts, stamped R.V.L.C. and JMC (jurande of master cabinetmakers).
It opens at the front with five drawers, including two without a central rail and three small drawers in the frieze, all closing with a key.
It measures 125 cm in length, 60 cm in depth and 88 cm in height.
Roger Vandercruse, known as Lacroix, known as R.V.L.C. (1728–1799), stamped RVLC and JMC. Roger Vandercruse, known as Lacroix, known as RVLC (1728–1799), a cabinetmaker of Flemish origin, was received master in 1755.
Of Flemish origin, this son of a free journeyman cabinetmaker, born in Paris in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, immediately integrated into the community and formed numerous alliances, notably with the cabinetmakers Jean-François Oeben and Jean-Henri Riesener, successive husbands of his elder sister Françoise-Marguerite. He was also a close friend of the dealer Pierre Migeon, to whom he supplied many light pieces of furniture, and of the cabinetmaker Martin Carlin. He supplied dealers such as Poirier and Daguerre. In 1755, following the death of his father, Lacroix decided to take over his father’s workshop on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Antoine.
