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A GEORGE III HAREWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE
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A GEORGE III HAREWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE

IN THE MANNER OF JOHN COBB, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III HAREWOOD, ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE
IN THE MANNER OF JOHN COBB, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Inlaid overall with flowered trellis, the shaped rectangular top crossbanded in rosewood, above a pair of doors enclosing a later shelf, the sides with flowered trelis on an ebonised ground, with later metalwork, the interior probably later veneered
34½ in. (87.5 cm.) high; 39 in. (99 cm.) wide; 20¾ in. (52.5 cm.) deep
来源
Possibly Thomas Kemmis (1753-1823) of Shaen Castle, Queen's Co. and by descent in the Kemmis family, Ballinacor, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow to Captain W. D. O. Kemmis.
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拍品专文

The sarcophagus-scrolled commode of silken figured harewood is conceived in the elegant 1770s French/antique manner, with its ribbon-banded and Cupid-bow top framing mosaiced trellis of golden flowered lozenges that evokes Rome's Temple of Venus. Both the façade and sides are veneered en suite while the 'picturesque' ormolu scrolls of foliated reeds that provide handles are echoed by those terminating the Grecian truss-scrolled pilasters.
George III's court cabinet-maker John Cobb (d. 1778) was among the principal cabinet-makers manufacturing such commodes, and the rectilinear sections of this commode's serpentined apron feature on a number of writing-tables or bonheur-du-jours attributed to his firm, including one that is likely to have been supplied around 1770 to the 6th Earl of Stamford for Dunham Park, Cheshire (J. Hardy and G. Jackson-stops, 'The Second Earl of Warrington and the Age of Walnut', Apollo, July 1978, p. 21, fig. 22).