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拍品專文
This dressing commode with it's sinuous serpentine form and bracket feet can be compared to patterns for French-fashioned 'commode chest of drawers' featured in William Ince and John Mayhews' The Universal System of Household Furniture, 1762 (pl XLIII). However the added feature of decorated corner angles, with bowed ribbons festooned with looped cords from which flowered and fruit-enriched foliage is suspended, can be also be compared to decorations on a George III bureau bookcase illustrated in P. Macquoid, A History of English Furniture, The Age of Mahogany, London, 1906, fig 142. This style of decoration was likely inspired by designs as seen on a Library bookcase in the Third Edition of Chippendale's Director, 1764, Plate LXXXVIII. Such beribboned festoons feature on related commodes sold at Sotheby's London, 8 May 1992, lot 74, and, 9 July 1999, lot 14.
A closely related commode, though with fret-carved angles, sold at Christie's London, 5 April, 2001, lot 179 (£18,800), almost certainly originating from the same workshop because of the similarity in form and its fine and rare quarter-veneered top. A related commode, also with fret-carved canted angles, and bearing the 1760's label of Philip Bell is illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840, Leeds 1996. Most recently a commode, which may originally have had plain angles, sold at Chrisite's London, 29 November 2001, lot 107 (/P24,000) like an almost identical pair of mahogany commodes supplied by Francis Say and Quentin Kay of Ludgate Hill, at a cost of 7 gns each, to Henry Knight for Tythegston Court, Glamorgan in 1770 (illustrated in J. Cornforth, 'Tythegston Court, Glamorgan', Country Life, 5 October 1978, p. 1029, fig. 10). Quentin Kay was a subscriber to Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1755.
A closely related commode, though with fret-carved angles, sold at Christie's London, 5 April, 2001, lot 179 (£18,800), almost certainly originating from the same workshop because of the similarity in form and its fine and rare quarter-veneered top. A related commode, also with fret-carved canted angles, and bearing the 1760's label of Philip Bell is illustrated in C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture, 1700-1840, Leeds 1996. Most recently a commode, which may originally have had plain angles, sold at Chrisite's London, 29 November 2001, lot 107 (/P24,000) like an almost identical pair of mahogany commodes supplied by Francis Say and Quentin Kay of Ludgate Hill, at a cost of 7 gns each, to Henry Knight for Tythegston Court, Glamorgan in 1770 (illustrated in J. Cornforth, 'Tythegston Court, Glamorgan', Country Life, 5 October 1978, p. 1029, fig. 10). Quentin Kay was a subscriber to Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, 1755.