Chest of drawers in lemon tree, amaranth, brass and ebony fillet, opening to three drawers with a frieze of dards and gilt bronze oves, the white marble top embedded with a gallery of balusters and draperies resting on detached columns with fluted foliage capitals ending in toupie feet; (small accidents and restorations including cracks). Attributed to Claude Charles Saunier. Louis XVI period, circa 1785-1790. H. 105 cm, W. 130 cm, D. 61 cm Furniture made of lemon wood remains relatively rare in the corpus of 18th century French furniture. They appear under the term of walnut from Guadeloupe in the second half of the 1780s. The famous merchant Dominique Daguerre delivered several pieces of furniture in lemon tree to the Palace of Versailles among which a secretary with flap probably by Claude Charles Saunier for the Duke of Harcourt on March 10, 1787 (London, Sotheby's, March 10, 1965, lot 41). A secretary with a flap with similar characteristics was sold by Sotheby's in London on May 3, 2012, lot 42, a third secretary was part of the sale in New York at Sotheby's on April 20, 2018, lot 1109. A simpler commode, also with detached columns was sold in Paris by Artcurial on December 16, 2019, lot 48. A second commode also featuring a bronze drapery frieze in the gallery is now listed on the English art market.