AN ITALIAN BLUE AND WHITE-PAINTED PAINTED SERPENTINE COMMODE decorated overall with acanthus cartouches, the eared top with moulded edge above three long drawers decorated sans traverse, on cabriole legs, mid-18th Century, re-backed

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AN ITALIAN BLUE AND WHITE-PAINTED PAINTED SERPENTINE COMMODE decorated overall with acanthus cartouches, the eared top with moulded edge above three long drawers decorated sans traverse, on cabriole legs, mid-18th Century, re-backed
54¼in. (137.5cm.) wide; 36¾in. (93.5cm.) high; 24in. (61cm.) deep

Literature

Florence de Dampierr, Best of Painted Furniture, n.d., pl. 59

Lot Essay

A black and gilt-painted commode of this upright form and with rounded angles is in the Luxoro Museum in Nervi and is thought to be from Liguria (see: S. Colombo, L' arte del Legno e del Mobile in Italia, 1981, fig. 383)

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