A PAIR OF GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY BEDSIDE COMMODES

ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III SATINWOOD AND MARQUETRY BEDSIDE COMMODES
Attributed to Mayhew and Ince
Each inlaid with boxwood and ebonised lines and crossbanded in rosewood and tulipwood, the breakfront rounded rectangular top above a pair of doors inlaid with boxwood and a green-stained wood, flanked by panels inlaid with husk-trails, above two mahogany-lined drawers with ebonised mouldings and, locks stamped 'SECURE LEVER', flanked by bell-husk panels, on square tapering legs, with block feet, restorations and adapted, one previously with hinged top and sliding commode seat, the tops reveneered, with variations
23in. (58.5cm.) wide; 30¾in. (78cm) high; 18½in. (47cm.) deep (2)

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These bedside commodes are closely related to a pair of satinwood bedside cupboards in the collection of the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth, Derbyshire. The husk chains on the legs of these bedside commodes is very similar to that on a satinwood Pembroke table, one of two supplied by Mayhew and Ince in 1786 to the fifth Duke of Devonshire for the Private Apartments at Chatsworth (I. Hall, 'A Neoclassical Episode at Chatsworth', The Burlington Magazine, June, 1980, p. 412, fig. 55 and The Dictionary of English Furniture Makers 1660-1800, Royston, 1995, p. 597). They also relate to tambour-doored 'commode' night-tables, which are thought to have been executed in 1779 by John Linnell of Berkeley Square for the 'Yellow Taffety Bed Chamber' at Osterley Park, Middlesex, and which also have husk-festooned pilasters (M. Tomlin, Catalogue of Adam Period Furniture, London, 1982, p. 94, no. L/3).