An impressive Louis XIII commode with palmette as featured in Palardy's "The Early Furniture of French Canada", plate 459. This piece has a "flat three-drawer façade with small moulded and shaped panels derived from Dauphine or Lyonnais". The drawer pulls which appear to be the original are mounted on raised panels with carved decorative trim around them. Lapped and moulded drawer fronts. There are carved floral decorations at the base of each front corner. Front and sides in pine, top in birch. Refinished. Québec, late 18th century. Measuring, 35" high x 42" wide x 25.75" deep.