CIRCA 1750

Details

A GEORGE II WALNUT COMMODE
CIRCA 1750
The quarter-veneered serpentine top above three frieze drawers, the central drawer fitted with a mirror and compartments, above a pair of cupboard doors faced to simulate three long drawers with central oval, the interior refitted with two drawers and two linen slides, on bracket feet, later brasses, the top re-veneered
33 in. (84 cm.) high, 44 ½ in. (113 cm.) wide, 23 ½ in. (60 cm.) deep

Provenance

Colonel H. H. Mulliner (d. 1924), Clifton Court, Rugby, Warwickshire.
Robert J. Dunham, Chicago; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 10 May 1947, lot 381.
Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1955.

Literature

T. H. Ormsbee, Prime Antiques and their Current Prices, New York, p. 123.
H. Comstock, 'English Furniture: European Decorative Art at the Metropolitan Museum', Magazine Antiques, May 1955, p. 401, fig. 8.
Y. Hackenbroch, English Furniture with some furniture from other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, pl. 282, fig. 324.
A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968, fig. 10.
F. L. Hinckley, A Directory of Queen Anne, Early Georgian and Chippendale Furniture, New York, 1971, p. 236, fig. 426.
F. L. Hinckley, Metropolitan Furniture of the Georgian Years, New York, 1988, p. 124, pl. 90, fig. 193.

Lot Essay

Colonel Mulliner was a well-known collector in the early 20th century and owner of the coachbuilders Mulliner Park Ward, creators of some of the greatest Rolls Royce cars. He published The Decorative Arts in England, 1923.
A very similar commode, pictured, was at Chesterfield House, London, the former home of H.R.H. Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles and her husband, Viscount Lascelles, later 6th Earl of Harewood, K.G.

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