19TH CENTURY

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A BALTIC BRASS-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE
19TH CENTURY
With two long drawers flanked by fluted angles, stamped with a crowned E over R/CAP:VI/NO. 6/B, applied with old paper labels
31 in. (79 cm.) high, 34½ in. (88 cm.) wide, 16½ in. (42 cm.) deep

Provenance

Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1739-1844).

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Lot Essay

According to the inventory stamp, this commode was part of the purchases of furniture and objets d'art made by Duke Ernst I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1784-1844) just after 1815 in Paris for Schloss Ehrenburg in Coburg and his country seat Schloss Greinburg in Austria. They are stamped with his cypher 'E' beneath a crown, and variously numbered. His acquisitions also included a set of pliants by Jacob Desmalter, sold Christie's, London, 1 December 2005, lots 214-215.

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