Lot Essay
This commode relates closely to a commode stamped by Gustaf Foltiern the elder (d. 1804), sold Bukowskis, Stockholm, 29 November-1 December 1995, lot 302.
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SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY
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A SWEDISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED WALNUT AND PARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE
Second half 18th Century
Banded overall in tulipwood, the moulded rectangular grey fossil marble top above three long drawers, the keeled angles with pierced C-scroll and foliate mounts, above a shaped apron centred by a pierced C-scroll and foliate mount, on tapering splayed legs with pierced C-scroll and foliate sabots, inscribed in chalk three times '15073', three legs with restored breaks
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 58 in. (147.5 cm.) wide; 28 in. (71 cm.) deep
Second half 18th Century
Banded overall in tulipwood, the moulded rectangular grey fossil marble top above three long drawers, the keeled angles with pierced C-scroll and foliate mounts, above a shaped apron centred by a pierced C-scroll and foliate mount, on tapering splayed legs with pierced C-scroll and foliate sabots, inscribed in chalk three times '15073', three legs with restored breaks
35½ in. (90 cm.) high; 58 in. (147.5 cm.) wide; 28 in. (71 cm.) deep