THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, ADAPTED

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AN EARLY GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY COMMODE
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, ADAPTED
With a crossbanded parquetry star-inlaid top and four drawers between undulating angles with trailing foliate mounts terminating in scroll feet, written in blue chalk on the reverse '2866', restorations, the mounts later, possibly originally a commode stool
33½ in. (85 cm.) high; 30 in. (76 cm.) wide; 20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 19 April 1986, lot 131.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 7 May 1987, lot 182.

Literature

Trade advertisement, Lenygon & Morant, Connoisseur, January 1930, p. XVII.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

The antique sarcophagus-scrolled commode is serpentined and ormolu-enriched in the French 'picturesque' manner, while its ribbon-banded top is parquetried in a Roman-mosaic with two lozenged compartments. The commode belongs to a group that has been attributed to the Marlborough cabinet-maker Henry Hill (d. 1778) together with a related, but larger, commode formerly in the Samuel Messer collection (L. Wood, The Lady Lever Art Gallery; Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, No.4, p. 73, fig. 61 and p.71, fig. 56).

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