Details
A Swedish burr-elm and line-inlaid breakfront commode, with eared rectangular top above three fruitwood banded drawers and pendant apron on square tapering legs, late 18th Century, signed in pencil under one drawer division Johan Jacob Ohlman (???)
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The Royal Swedish cabinet maker, Georg Haupt used almost identical lock plates with pierced ribbon crests and swags. See Georg Haupt, Ebeniste Du Roi, Marshall, Lagerquist, 1979, plates 33 and 75.
An Israel Ullman is recorded 1760-1779. See Snickare, Schatullmakare, Och Ebenister, Erik Andren, Stockholm, Nordiska Museets 1973, plate 149.
Cf. A Swedish commode with similar lock plates and canted angles illustrated in Mobler Fran Svenska Herre-Manshem, Vol.II, Sigurd Wallin Nordiska Museet, 1979, plate 493 and a neo-classical commode with similar inlaid apron, square tapering legs and canted angles, Vol.III, plate 869.
See Colour Illustration
The Royal Swedish cabinet maker, Georg Haupt used almost identical lock plates with pierced ribbon crests and swags. See Georg Haupt, Ebeniste Du Roi, Marshall, Lagerquist, 1979, plates 33 and 75.
An Israel Ullman is recorded 1760-1779. See Snickare, Schatullmakare, Och Ebenister, Erik Andren, Stockholm, Nordiska Museets 1973, plate 149.
Cf. A Swedish commode with similar lock plates and canted angles illustrated in Mobler Fran Svenska Herre-Manshem, Vol.II, Sigurd Wallin Nordiska Museet, 1979, plate 493 and a neo-classical commode with similar inlaid apron, square tapering legs and canted angles, Vol.III, plate 869.