AN ITALIAN WALNUT AND MARQUETRY RECTANGULAR COMMODE in the manner of Giuseppe Maggiolini, the later grey and white fossil marble top above a frieze drawer inlaid with scrolling acanthus, above two long drawers veneered and inlaid sans traverse with a central urn and banded with ribbon-scroll, the angles inlaid with urns and foliage, on square tapering legs, previously with foliage, on square tapering legs, previously with a wooden top

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AN ITALIAN WALNUT AND MARQUETRY RECTANGULAR COMMODE in the manner of Giuseppe Maggiolini, the later grey and white fossil marble top above a frieze drawer inlaid with scrolling acanthus, above two long drawers veneered and inlaid sans traverse with a central urn and banded with ribbon-scroll, the angles inlaid with urns and foliage, on square tapering legs, previously with foliage, on square tapering legs, previously with a wooden top
49¼in. (125cm.) wide; 36¼in. (92cm.) high; 23¼in. (59cm.) deep

Lot Essay

A closely related commmode with a scene from Homer's Iliad inlaid in the front was sold anonymously, in these Rooms, 27 May 1993, lot 204.

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