A DUTCH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, HAREWOOD, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY COMMODE, late 18th Century

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A DUTCH GILTMETAL-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, TULIPWOOD, HAREWOOD, MARQUETRY AND PARQUETRY COMMODE, late 18th Century

The later shaped rectangular grey-veined marble top above a dentilled cornice enclosing two later mahogany slides to the sides, the breakfront centre inlaid with a fluted spring within a bead-and-reel and interlaced border garlanded with laurel and ribbon-tied angles, flanked by two doors, simulated as a drawer and a door inlaid with floral trellis and ribbon-tied musical trophies with engaged column angles, the plain interior with one shelf, the sides inlaid with Neo-Classical urns, above an entrelac-inlaid plinth and on roundel-headed canted tapering legs and sabots, adapted from a klap-buffet and originally with a wooden top
46¼in. (117.5cm.) wide; 36¼in. )92cm.) high; 22¼in. (56.5cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The commode, with dentilled cornice and Corinthian-columned corners, is designed in the Louis XVI 'antique' manner of the 1760s; while the trompe l'oeil marquetry of its bow-centred facade depicts a laurel-festooned medallion of an exotically flowered shrub after the Oriental manner, and this is flanked by laurel-enriched musical trophies suspended beneath the trellised frieze. These ribbon-tied instruments relate to poetic pastoral compositions such as those after F. Vivares published by A. Benoist in his Book of Different Trophies, 1769. The commode's octagon hermed feet with husk-inlaid flutes feature on a marquetry commode of the late 1770s attributed to the The Hague cabinet-maker Matthijs Horris (d. 1809) (see: R. Baarsen, Dutch Furniture, Amsterdam, 1993, no. 55)

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