SICILY, MID-18TH CENTURY

Other Sicilian commodes with the same distinctive design of floral reserves within gilt pastiglia borders and with hoof-form feet, are illustrated in M. Giarrizzo and A. Rotolo, Mobili e Mobilieri Nella Sicilia del Settecento, Palermo, 1992, p. 77, fig. 20 and p. 79, fig. 23. Another commode of this form in the civic collection of Palermo is illustrated in S. Colombo, L"Arte del Legno e del Mobile in Italia, 1981, fig. 384.