IN THE MANNER OF GEORG HAUPT

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A SWEDISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED AMARANTH, BIRCH AND MARQUETRY COMMODE
In the manner of Georg Haupt
The later moulded and eared breakfront Swedish green marble top above a long panelled frieze-drawer with ribbon-guilloche to the sides and a scallop-shell flanked by Vitruvian-scrolls to the centre, above a ribbon-tied laurel band and two deep drawers decorated sans traverse with two ribbon-tied wreaths and swags within a geometric border and flanked by arched tablets, the apron with an acanthus spray, the canted angles headed by a laurel-hung lion's mask and acanthus-trails above a simulated panel, the sides with a laurel-swag suspended from flowerheads above a rosette within a geometric border, the ormolu-trailed cabriole legs headed by an acanthus-spray and terminating in scrolling acanthus sabots on metal caps, restorations and alterations, incorporating 18th Century elements
45½ in. (115 cm.) wide; 34¼ in. (87 cm.) high; 21¾ in. (55.5 cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Several features of this commode exist on the documented oeuvre of Georg Haupt, such as the mounts to the top of the angles and the angle of the legs which are shared with a commode sold anonymously in these Rooms, 8 December 1994, lot 570. Further, the distinct tablet side panels are recorded on the two celebrated secrétaires à abattant illustrated in M. Lagerquist, Georg Haupt Ebéniste du Roi, Stockholm, 1979, p. 142, cat. 27 and p. 144, cat. 28, the latter of which was also sold anonymously in these Rooms, 8 December 1994, lot 576. Finally, the foliate scrolling mount to the apron can be seen on the pull-out bed concealed within a commode, delivered to Gustaf III prior to 1792 and now at Drottningsholm Castle, Sweden (M. Lagerquist, op. cit., p. 80).

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