A SICILIAN KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY COMMODE

MID-18TH CENTURY

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A SICILIAN KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY COMMODE
Mid-18th Century
The three-quarter galleried waved and and striated grey marble top, above two short drawers, on cabriole legs, the reverse inscribed in white paint '1615c pajo'.
34 in. (85.5 cm.) high; 21 in. (52.5 cm.) wide; 13 in. (34 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Related examples of Sicilian bedside commodes are illustrated in E. Baccheschi, ed., Mobili Italiani del Meridione, Milano, 1966, p. 90. A very similar bedside table with similar parquetry is illustrated in M. Giarrizzo, A. Rotolo, Mobili e Mobilieri nella Sicilia del Settecento, Palermo, 1992, p. 84, ill. 30.

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