Lot Essay
A commode à vantaux by Carlin with identical parquetry decoration in a Parisian private collection is illustrated in P. Kjellberg, Le Mobilier Français du XVIIIe Siècle, Paris, 1989, p.163. Another commode of this model with similar parquetry, originally supplied by Poirier, and probably acquired by the 7th Viscount Stormont (later 2nd Earl of Mansfield) for Scone Palace, was sold Christie's Monaco, 6 December 1985, lot 54, from the Wildenstein/Ojjeh/Clore collections.
A pair of breakfront commodes by Carlin with identical parquetry decoration, from the collection of Lord Walter Tablot Kerr, Brocket Hall, Hatfield, and acquired by Mrs A. Hamilton Rice from Duveen, is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Catalogue: France 1700-1800, p.18)
A pair of breakfront commodes by Carlin with identical parquetry decoration, from the collection of Lord Walter Tablot Kerr, Brocket Hall, Hatfield, and acquired by Mrs A. Hamilton Rice from Duveen, is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Catalogue: France 1700-1800, p.18)