Lot 79
79
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE, the serpentine-fronted moulded veined liver-marble slab above three short and two long bombe drawers inlaid with geometric panels, divided by brass fillets and mounted with gadrooned and rockwork handles on foliate-bosses with similar escutcheons, the angles with C-scroll, cabochon, rockwork and acanthus mounts above a shaped foliate-apron and on shaped bracket feet with rockwork-cabochon sabots, stamped F*F and numerously stamped F

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A REGENCE ORMOLU-MOUNTED AND BRASS-INLAID KINGWOOD AND PARQUETRY BOMBE COMMODE, the serpentine-fronted moulded veined liver-marble slab above three short and two long bombe drawers inlaid with geometric panels, divided by brass fillets and mounted with gadrooned and rockwork handles on foliate-bosses with similar escutcheons, the angles with C-scroll, cabochon, rockwork and acanthus mounts above a shaped foliate-apron and on shaped bracket feet with rockwork-cabochon sabots, stamped F*F and numerously stamped F
51½in. (131cm.) wide; 36in. (91.5cm.) high; 25½in. (65cm.) deep

Lot Essay

The stamp F.F. is recorded in J. Nicolay, L'Art et La Manière des Maîtres Ebénistes Français, Paris, 1959, p. 144. Closely related commodes were sold by the Earl of Harrington, 22 November 1963, lot 62, and by the Trustees of the Llangattock Heirlooms, 27 November 1958, lot 119

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