Lot 128
128
A PAIR OF GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY BEDSIDE COMMODES cross and feather-banded overall in rosewood, each with rectangular top and front door inlaid with a fan-medallion, the sides with brass trellis-filled and later silk-backed panels, on feather-banded square tapering legs, adapted and formerly with hinged tops, the undersides inscribed in pencil Inglis

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY BEDSIDE COMMODES cross and feather-banded overall in rosewood, each with rectangular top and front door inlaid with a fan-medallion, the sides with brass trellis-filled and later silk-backed panels, on feather-banded square tapering legs, adapted and formerly with hinged tops, the undersides inscribed in pencil Inglis
18¾in. (37.5cm.) wide; 31½in. (80cm.) high; 16½in. (42cm.) deep (2)
Provenance
Bought from Partridge on 17 May 1962 for #675


The combination of satinwood veneer and paterae inlaid on oval medallions was fashionable in the years around 1780. The medallion features on patterns for pembroke tables and tea-trays published in A. Hepplewhite and Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, London, 1788

Lot Essay

The oval paterae set within a dark ground and inlaid on a satinwood pan1l corresponds to the London fashion of the period 1780-1785. This style was later published in A. Hepplewhite & Co., The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788-94. Examples of the patera are shown ibid., pls. 62-3 and 65.

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