A SWEDISH GUSTAF III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BIRCH, ROSEWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODE by Georg Haupt, the later canted breakfront rectangular grey-veined white marble top above a panelled frieze drawer with central scallop-shell flanked by Vitruvian-scroll panels and flanked by inlaid shadowed fluted panels, the two long drawers inlaid sans traverse with a central ribbon-bound laurel swag suspended from two patera mounts, in geometric border flanked by an urn on a plinth, with waved apron centred by a patera, the canted panelled corners headed by swagged lion-masks and husks, the sides conforming and with central panel, on cabriole legs headed by stiff-leaf trails and fan, inscribed in red ink fait Chez Georg Haupt Ebeniste Du Roy Stockholm

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A SWEDISH GUSTAF III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BIRCH, ROSEWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND MARQUETRY COMMODE by Georg Haupt, the later canted breakfront rectangular grey-veined white marble top above a panelled frieze drawer with central scallop-shell flanked by Vitruvian-scroll panels and flanked by inlaid shadowed fluted panels, the two long drawers inlaid sans traverse with a central ribbon-bound laurel swag suspended from two patera mounts, in geometric border flanked by an urn on a plinth, with waved apron centred by a patera, the canted panelled corners headed by swagged lion-masks and husks, the sides conforming and with central panel, on cabriole legs headed by stiff-leaf trails and fan, inscribed in red ink fait Chez Georg Haupt Ebeniste Du Roy Stockholm
54¾in. (139cm.) wide; 33in. (84cm.) high; 25½in. (65cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale at Bukowski's, Stockholm, 5 December 1918, lot 146
Henry Dunker, Helsingborg
By descent to Anna Fougstedt, Eslöv, sold at Bukowski's, Stockholm, 11 November 1965, lot 397

Literature

M. Lagerquist, Georg Haupt, Ebéniste du Roi, Stockholm, 1979, p. 184, cat. 57

Lot Essay

Georg Haupt (1741 - 1784), master in 1770

This commode is very closely related to a smaller commode signed and dated 1777 by Georg Haupt (see: M. Lagerquist op. cit., p. 162, cat. 40). The two commodes have the same mounts, the same cuts of wood and almost entirely congruent designs. In addition they are both signed fait chez Georg Haupt which indicates that they were probably made at the same time, possibly as a pair.
It is interesting to note that Haupt, although accredited with introducing neo-classicism to Sweden with Jean Eric Rehn, preserved the cabriole legs, rather a Rococo shape, for his commodes

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