Lot Essay
This commode is unusual in having a marble top and although it is a later replacement, the construction shows that the commode was designed to take a marble top.
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Details
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE DRESSING-COMMODE
The later Guillestre Breccia marble top above four graduated drawers with cross and chequer-banding, the top drawer fitted with adjustable compartments, four short drawers below a green baize-lined slide, between fiddleback mahogany-panelled and chequer-banded angles, on shaped bracket feet, the reverse with depository label inscribed 'J.G.S.MACPHAIL', the underside of the marble top inscribed 'Mcphail', the metalwork original
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 50 in. (127 cm.) wide; 24½ in. (62.5 cm.) deep
The later Guillestre Breccia marble top above four graduated drawers with cross and chequer-banding, the top drawer fitted with adjustable compartments, four short drawers below a green baize-lined slide, between fiddleback mahogany-panelled and chequer-banded angles, on shaped bracket feet, the reverse with depository label inscribed 'J.G.S.MACPHAIL', the underside of the marble top inscribed 'Mcphail', the metalwork original
36 in. (91.5 cm.) high; 50 in. (127 cm.) wide; 24½ in. (62.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
By repute the Trevelyan family, Wallington Hall, Northumberland.
J.G.S. MacPhail.
J.G.S. MacPhail.
Special notice
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