A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD TULIPWOOD AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY COMMODE by P....Mevvesson, with eared moulded rectangular white marble top above a frieze drawer inlaid with cube parquetry centred by roundels and two further graduated drawers inlaid with geometric parquetry and with cubed floral rosettes banded and crossbanded in amaranth and kingwood, between canted angles with laurel-cast triglyph mounts and simulated fluting, the sides with corresponding parquetry, above a shaped apron and on angled tapering cabriole legs and acanthus-cast claw sabots, stamped P. H. MEVVESSEN JME, restorations, with H H k collection label, one drawer inscribed A D 1956

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A TRANSITIONAL ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD TULIPWOOD AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY COMMODE by P....Mevvesson, with eared moulded rectangular white marble top above a frieze drawer inlaid with cube parquetry centred by roundels and two further graduated drawers inlaid with geometric parquetry and with cubed floral rosettes banded and crossbanded in amaranth and kingwood, between canted angles with laurel-cast triglyph mounts and simulated fluting, the sides with corresponding parquetry, above a shaped apron and on angled tapering cabriole legs and acanthus-cast claw sabots, stamped P. H. MEVVESSEN JME, restorations, with H H k collection label, one drawer inscribed A D 1956
31¼in. (79.5cm.) wide; 34¾in. (88cm.) high; 17¾in. (45cm.) deep
Provenance
Acquired by H. H. Konig Esq., Tyringham House, Buckinghamshire in the late 19th Century

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