THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 90-92)

A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED SATINWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND PADOUK MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE

ATTRIBUTED TO THOMAS CHIPPENDALE JUNIOR

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A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED SATINWOOD, TULIPWOOD AND PADOUK MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE
Attributed to Thomas Chippendale Junior
Crossbanded overall in tulipwood and inlaid overall with boxwood lines and banded in green-stained wood, the eared shaped top inlaid with a central flowerhead and fan-shaped oval medallion, above a pair of doors inlaid with concave-cut corner panels centred by ribbon-tied husk medallions with urns enclosing a shelf, the doors with a shaped apron, the sides inlaid with an oval, on splayed bracket feet, the angle with foliage and husk-trail mounts and acanthus cabochon sabots, restorations
39½ in. (100.5 cm.) wide; 34 in. (86.5 cm.) high; 20¼ in. (51.5 cm.) deep

出版

The Connoisseur, December 1964, p. xix, trade advertisement, Mallett and Son (Antiques) Ltd.
The Connoisseur, June 1966, p. 116, trade advertisement, Mallett and Son (Antiques) Ltd.
L. Wood, 'Lord Walsingham and the Younger Chippendale', Antique Collecting, February 1987, p. 41, fig. 7.

拍品專文

The elegantly serpentined commode is embellished in the antique manner and has golden satinwood veneer radiating from a shell-scalloped patera medallion on the top and from Grecian-urn medallions on the facade. The latter are wreathed by Roman acanthus husks that are ribbon tied and suspended within hollow-cornered tablets. These features also feature on a commode that is likely to have been supplied to Thomas de Grey, 2nd Lord Walsingham by Thomas Chippendale Junior (d.1822), shortly after he had taken over the administration of his father's St. Martin's Lane workshops (L. Wood, op. cit., p. 38, fig. 1). The present commode and the Walsingham commode have been firmly attributed to the Chippendale workshops (ibid., p. 42).