A SWEDISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND PADOUK COMMODE

LATE 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY BY NICLAS KORP

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A SWEDISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND PADOUK COMMODE
Late 18th Century, possibly by Niclas Korp
Of breakfront outline, the green and black-mottled marble top with canted angles above a long frieze-drawer simulated as three drawers, with a dentilled band, above a tied-laurel moulding and two long drawers, inlaid sans traverse above a ribbon-tied foliate spray apron, on short cabriole legs and upswept foliate sabots, minor losses and restorations to veneer, the back legs missing sabots, partly remounted including frieze
34½ in. (87.5 cm.) high; 48¾ in. (124 cm.) wide; 23¼ in. (59 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The typically Swedish transitional style of this commode as well as its band-inlays to the breakfront are closely related to the work of both Jonas Hultsten, maître in 1773, and Niclas Korp, maître in 1771. Both use identical cut-cornered tablets with indented short side to the central panel and commodes using an identical apron-mount are recorded by both masters. It is, however, Korp in particular, who also used large plain veneered fields in rosewood and padouk. Comparable works are illustrated in T. Sylvén, Mästarnas Möbler, Stockholm, 1996, pp. 189 and 212.

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