A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY BEDSIDE COMMODES

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY BEDSIDE COMMODES
Each with a rectangular shaped-galleried tray-top with pierced handles, above a tambour-fronted door and a draw-out close-stool with white ceramic pot, on square tapering legs, brass castors, lacking one pot, restorations
23¾ in. (60.5 cm.) wide; 31¾ in. (80.5 cm.) high; 19¾ in. (50cm.) deep (2)

Provenance

Almost certainly supplied to George Wilbraham (d. 1813) for Delamere House, Cheshire.
Thence by descent in the Wilbraham family, latterly of Sweet Briar Hall, Cheshire.

Lot Essay

In 1774 a related pair of tray-topped and tambour-fronted night tables were supplied to Ninian Home by Thomas Chippendale (d.1779) of St. Martin's Lane for Paxton House, Berwick (illustrated in C. Gilbert The Life and Work of Thomas Chippendale, London, 1978, vol. II, p. 249, fig. 454).

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