A NORTH ITALIAN KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODE in the manner of Giuseppe Maggiolini, the rectangular top centred by a round musical trophy within a foliate border and tulipwood crossbanding, above three graduated long drawers, the upper inlaid with ribbon-tied foliate swags, the bottom pair inlaid sans traverse with a circular medallion of Athena, the sides with conforming inlay, the angles inlaid with panels of foliage, on conforming square tapering legs, with modern plastic handles, minor restorations

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A NORTH ITALIAN KINGWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODE in the manner of Giuseppe Maggiolini, the rectangular top centred by a round musical trophy within a foliate border and tulipwood crossbanding, above three graduated long drawers, the upper inlaid with ribbon-tied foliate swags, the bottom pair inlaid sans traverse with a circular medallion of Athena, the sides with conforming inlay, the angles inlaid with panels of foliage, on conforming square tapering legs, with modern plastic handles, minor restorations
48in. (122cm.) wide; 32½in. (82cm.) high; 22¾in. (58cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Designed in the Neo-Classical manner popularised by iiuseppe Maggiolini (d.1814), top embellished with a poetic trophy incorporating a Grecian lyre, this commode's central medallion recalling a sacrifice on the Altar of Love and Homer's Iliad, depicts Andromache embracing the Sacred urn that incarnates Hector's ashes, while her captor Achilles proposes marriage. A closely related commode with ribbon-tied foliate swags is illustrated in G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Neo Classico Italiano, Milan 1955, av. CCCXXII

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