A SWEDISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE

SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY

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A SWEDISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE
Second half 18th Century
The moulded shaped and eared Kalmarden marble top above three long cross-banded drawers, the shaped sides inlaid with lozenge-shaped parquetry and on short splayed legs centred by an asymmetrical foliate apron mount and terminating in pierced and scrolled upswept sabots, restorations to the back legs, remounted
33¼ in. (85.5 cm.) high; 44 in. (111.5 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This commode can be related to the work of the Swedish furniture maker Peter Gyllenberg (1767). A comparable bombé commode by Gyllenberg, is illustrated in M. Lagerquist, Rokokomöbler, Stockholm, 1949, p. 15, fig. 35 and a further related commode was sold anonymously at Bruun Rasmussen, Copenhagen, 24-25 February 1994, lot 648.

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