A PAIR OF IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY BEDSIDE COMMODES

Details

A PAIR OF IRISH GEORGE III MAHOGANY BEDSIDE COMMODES
Each with shaped gallery top with pierced handles, above a tambour sliding door, one sliding from left to right and the other from right to left above a draw-out close-stool on square legs, one with missing castor, lacking both pots, one with '2' inscribed in pencil to the canvas inside the sliding door
20½ in. (51 cm.) wide; 30 in. (76 cm.) high; 18 in. (46 cm.) deep (2)

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).

More from Fine English Furniture

View All