Lot Essay
A commode of closely related form was supplied to Croome Court, Worcestershire, in the early 1760s, and is now in an English private collection. It has not yet been identified in the extensive Croome bills but the main cabinet-makers supplying for the house at that date were Vile and Cobb.
The flattened truss pilasters relate to a design amongst a group of drawings dated 1761 and attributed to William Gomm (d. 1778) of Clerkenwell Close, London (L. Boynton, 'William and Richard Gomm', Burlington Magazine, June 1980, fig. 33). Gomm supplied several related commodes to Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, of which a pair was sold in these Rooms, 3 May 1962, lot 53 and another lot 54.
A related commode supplied to Robert Shafto, Esq., M.P. (d. 1797) for Whitworth Hall, Co. Durham was sold by Robert Duncombe-Shafto, Esq., in these Rooms, 12 November 1998, lot 110.
The flattened truss pilasters relate to a design amongst a group of drawings dated 1761 and attributed to William Gomm (d. 1778) of Clerkenwell Close, London (L. Boynton, 'William and Richard Gomm', Burlington Magazine, June 1980, fig. 33). Gomm supplied several related commodes to Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwickshire, of which a pair was sold in these Rooms, 3 May 1962, lot 53 and another lot 54.
A related commode supplied to Robert Shafto, Esq., M.P. (d. 1797) for Whitworth Hall, Co. Durham was sold by Robert Duncombe-Shafto, Esq., in these Rooms, 12 November 1998, lot 110.