A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE DRESSING-COMMODE

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE DRESSING-COMMODE
With four graduated drawers, the top drawer fitted, flanked by reeded columns, on bracket feet, minor restorations and previously with castors, the top drawer lacking slide and mirror, the handles possibly original
32½ in. (82.5 cm.) high; 55 in. (139.5 cm.) wide; 27 in. (68.5 cm.) deep

拍品专文

The serpentined top has rounded or 'turret' corners corresponding to a 'bureau-table' pattern in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1754 (pl. XLII). The pillars of the dressing-commode are reeded in the fashion adopted for bed-posts around 1780 and popularised by Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pl. 106.