VENICE, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A NORTH ITALIAN WALNUT AND BURR-WALNUT COMMODE
Venice, mid-18th Century
With serpentine-arched superstructure with a cupboard flanked on each side by two drawers, the commode with a moulded serpentine top above four drawers, on scrolled feet, the handles later, the feet resupported, the backboards later, replacements to the veneer on the drawer-fronts, possibly previously with cresting
45 in. (114.5 cm.) high; 40 in. (102 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The curvaceous outline and richly grained walnut veneers of this striking commode is typical of the fluid forms created by Venetian cabinet-makers during the rococo period. The same exaggerated, high-hipped form features on a Venetian bureau cabinet in the Forti collection, Venice, illustrated in S. Colombo, L' Arte del legno e del Mobile in Italia, Milan, 1981, p. 455, fig. 452, and also on a bureau-cabinet (which had the additional feature of animal carving to the angles) sold in these Rooms, 2 December 1998, lot 30 (also illustrated in G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Veneziano del '700, Milan, 1958, fig. CCCLXXVII).

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