Lot Essay
A commode of similar design and form and from the collection of the Earls of Craven was sold at Sotheby's London, 8 October 1965, lot 139
Details
A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE DRESSING-COMMODE
The eared top with moulded egg-and-dart edge above a long drawer with a later green baize-lined slide and three further long drawers, the keeled angles with beaded volutes headed by acanthus scrolls and on short cabriole legs headed by acanthus angles, the back edge of the top with fragmentary paper label IRWIN UNTERMYER, with further printed paper label EXHIBITED AT THE LUTON MUSEUM BEDFORDSHIRE IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE EXHIBITION 1939, numbered 80, the back feet replaced
42¾in. (108.5cm.) wide; 35in. (89cm.) high; 22½in. (57cm.) deep
The eared top with moulded egg-and-dart edge above a long drawer with a later green baize-lined slide and three further long drawers, the keeled angles with beaded volutes headed by acanthus scrolls and on short cabriole legs headed by acanthus angles, the back edge of the top with fragmentary paper label IRWIN UNTERMYER, with further printed paper label EXHIBITED AT THE LUTON MUSEUM BEDFORDSHIRE IN THE DAYS OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE EXHIBITION 1939, numbered 80, the back feet replaced
42¾in. (108.5cm.) wide; 35in. (89cm.) high; 22½in. (57cm.) deep
Provenance
Judge Irwin Untermyer
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 25 June 1987, lot 129
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 25 June 1987, lot 129
Literature
Y. Hackenbroch, et. al., English Furniture ... in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, London, 1958, p. 67, and pl. 281, fig. 323
Exhibited
Luton Museum, Bedfordshire, 'In the Days of Queen Charlotte', 1939, no. 80