108. Georges-Marie-Paul-Vital Bonifacio MONBRO (known as MONBRO AINE) or MONBRO Fils Chest of drawers with brass inlaid decoration on a tortoise shell background with scrolls, tendrils and scrolls engraved. It opens with three drawers on three rows separated by crosspieces and rests on six legs, two of which are snail-shaped on the sides with detached tapered column uprights. Straight front legs. Ornamentation in chased and gilded bronze such as moldings, key entries, radiating mask of Daphne and rings. Red Languedoc marble top supported by a frieze of ovals and spearheads. Stamped MONBRO AINE. Marked MONBRO on the back of a bronze ornament. Louis XIV style, first half of the 19th century. (Small chips in the marble, cracks and lifts in the marquetry. Lifts of brass fillets on the left side jamb. on the left side). H : 83,5 cm - W : 128,5 cm - D : 58 cm. It is around 1705-1715 that André-Charles Boulle invented this model of furniture which remains at the prototypal stage, between the eight-legged desk and the four-legged chest of drawers that we know a few years later. The commode à tambour illustrates Boulle's talent for inventiveness and his constant research into the evolution of forms. A copy is kept in the Wallace Collection in London (inv. F 403). Supplier of the furniture of the Crown during the July Monarchy and the Second Empire, Monbro specialized in the realization of replicas of Boulle furniture and the creation of furniture in first and counterpart combining metal and tortoise shell.