POSSIBLY MUNICH, MID 18TH CENTURY

This elegant South German commode, with its hipped angles and shallow relief ornament, features the distinctive rococo vocabulary developed by Bavarian architectural designers and cabinet-makers in the 1730's and 1740's, epitomized by the celebrated Reichen Zimmer, the parade rooms of the Residenz in Munich designed by the court architect François Cuvilliés (1695-1768). A commode in the Residenz with similar relief decoration and more exaggerated outset angles, by Johann Adam Schmidt, is illustrated in H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des Deutschen Möbels, Munich, 1970, vol. II, fig. 447, while another of more closely related overall form, previously on the Munich art market, is illustrated ibid., fig. 439.