AN ANGLO-INDIAN MACASSER EBONY AND SATINWOOD SIDE CABINET

19TH CENTURY

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AN ANGLO-INDIAN MACASSER EBONY AND SATINWOOD SIDE CABINET
19th Century
Inlaid with satinwood lines, the rectangular removable top with central panel crossbanded in satinwood, inlaid with foliate and palm sprays to the corners and centred to the front edge by a laurel wreath, above a panelled frieze and two conforming panelled cupboard doors, flanked by part-reeded columns headed by palmettes, on part-reeded toupie feet, originally with two drawers
37½ in. (95 cm.) high; 54 in. (137 cm.) wide; 24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The inlaid ebony border framing the commode's satinwood-veneered top displays triumphal laurel wreaths and palm-flowered acanthus in the antique manner popularised by C. Percier and P. Fontaine's Recueil de décorations intérieures, 1801. The commode faade is embellished with hollow-cornered tablets and carved with palm-flowered tablets and Egyptian-reeded pilasters and stump feet after the French antique fashion promoted by Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet Dictionary of 1803.

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