Grohé Frères meuble à hauteur d'appui à ressaut Paris, cira 1870

amarante, platane, green stained fruitwood, satiné, sycomore and ébène flower-head trellis-parquetry, blanc veiné et bréché de Carrare marble, the nature morte marquetry panel in fruitwood against a sycomore background, three frieze drawers with citronnier veneers, the cupboard door opening to a citronnier-veneered interior and one shelf, stamped twice GROHE / A PARIS to the top of the carcass.

D. Ledoux-Lebard, Le Mobilier Français du XIX Siècle, pp. 237-246, and p. 242, for an illustration of a variation of the present commode with a flower bouquet marquetry panel to the front door.

C. Payne, 19th Century European Furniture, p. 37

D. Meyer, Versailles Furniture of the Royal Place: 17th and 18th Centuries, Vol. I, p. 136, for an illustration of a variant 18th century model, circa 1778,  by J.-H. Riesener.

The work of Grohé was praised in the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle 'supéieurs à ceux de Riesener et Gouthière'. This original model, commonly attributed to Riesener, was loaned by the Palace of Fontainebleau and is shown in a line engraving in the retrospective part of the Exposition rétrospective de l'union centrale des arts décoratifs, Paris 1882, De Champeau & Others, 'Les arts du bois,' pub. Quantin, 1883, p. 68.