SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY, FERRARA

This commode relates to a group of Ferrarese pieces, all with serpentine fronts and rounded angles above waved aprons and with quite similar cabriole legs with broad knees and squared hoof feet. Each is further banded in walnut and some have olivewood panels to the drawer fronts, sides or tops. See, for example, one illustrated in G. Manni, Mobili in Emilia, Modena, 1986, fig. 268, p. 312. Further closely comparable examples include those found in G. Manni, Mobili Antichi in Emilia Romagna, Modena 1993, figs. 258-259, p. 126, and fig. 311, p. 150.