A SWEDISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE by Johan Neijber, the serpentine-fronted moulded green Swedish marble top above three bombé-fronted drawers inlaid with trellis and lozenge parquetry with ebony and boxwood lines and fruitwood borders divided by brass fillets, the swollen angles mounted with C-scroll and foliate motifs, the bombé sides with similar lozenge parquetry above a waved apron and on splayed feet with foliate-cast ormolu sabots, mid-18th Century, the marble inscribed Nebert, signed Nelberts

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A SWEDISH ORMOLU-MOUNTED KINGWOOD, AMARANTH AND PARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE by Johan Neijber, the serpentine-fronted moulded green Swedish marble top above three bombé-fronted drawers inlaid with trellis and lozenge parquetry with ebony and boxwood lines and fruitwood borders divided by brass fillets, the swollen angles mounted with C-scroll and foliate motifs, the bombé sides with similar lozenge parquetry above a waved apron and on splayed feet with foliate-cast ormolu sabots, mid-18th Century, the marble inscribed Nebert, signed Nelberts
48¾in. (124cm.) wide; 32½in. (83cm.) high; 24½in. 962cm.) deep

Lot Essay

Johan Neijber (1746-1795) became maître in 1768, with the submission of a 'commode inlaid with foreign woods' to the jury. An extremely closely related commode, by Neijber and dating from circa 1768, is illustrated in M.Lagerquist's, Rokokomöbler, Stockholm, 1949, figs. 43-4. Neijber's most important patron was Gustav III, to whom he delivered a commode that still remains in The Royal Palace in Stockholm.

The influence of Christian Linning (1706-1779) on the overall shape of this commode is pronounced

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