Lot 181
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A PARCEL-GILT AND WALNUT SIDE CABINET, with a breakfront white marble top above a frieze with egg-and-dart and chanelled moulding above a pair of glazed rectangular doors each with a bead moulded edge and shaped moulded frame with scrolls and a foliate roundel to each corner, flanked by a pair of female herm caryatids with curved mirror -backed corners and open shelves, on plinth base with leaf moulded border (one back panel lost, gilding and gesso with losses and chips)

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A PARCEL-GILT AND WALNUT SIDE CABINET, with a breakfront white marble top above a frieze with egg-and-dart and chanelled moulding above a pair of glazed rectangular doors each with a bead moulded edge and shaped moulded frame with scrolls and a foliate roundel to each corner, flanked by a pair of female herm caryatids with curved mirror -backed corners and open shelves, on plinth base with leaf moulded border (one back panel lost, gilding and gesso with losses and chips)
mid-19th Century
72¾in. (185cm.) wide; 41in. (104cm.) high; 19¼in. (49cm.) deep

Lot Essay

This glazed commode, with mirror-backed encoignure-shelves, is designed in the late 18th century French 'antique' manner with vestal columnar-'herms', fluted frieze and flowered acanthus-scrolled spandrels to the doors.

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