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拍品專文
The commode, serpentined in the French manner, displays a colourful Roman 'mosaiced' top in the George III 'antique' style that was fashionable around 1780. The demi-medallion of golden satinwood, which is inlaid within a larger shell-scalloped medallion, is echoed by whorled and scalloped medallions on the facade. These shell badges, evoking the nature deity, are accompanied by golden masks of the Arcadian satyr deity Pan issuing from Roman foliage above on the angles. A similar medallion features on a pattern for a bedroom apartment pembroke-table illustrated in Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co's, The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788, pl. 63.
The commode formed part of the collection assembled in London in the early 20th century by Alfred Stern under the guidance of the Oxford Street dealers Moss Harris and Sons, who illustrated examples from his collection in their catalogue Old Furniture and Works of Decorative Art produced in the 1920s.
Although attribution of this commode is difficult to confirm, a games table with an idetically inlaid top is illustrated in P. Broome's, The Hyde Park Collection 1965-1990, (pp. 192-193) and is most certainly from the same workshop.
The commode formed part of the collection assembled in London in the early 20th century by Alfred Stern under the guidance of the Oxford Street dealers Moss Harris and Sons, who illustrated examples from his collection in their catalogue Old Furniture and Works of Decorative Art produced in the 1920s.
Although attribution of this commode is difficult to confirm, a games table with an idetically inlaid top is illustrated in P. Broome's, The Hyde Park Collection 1965-1990, (pp. 192-193) and is most certainly from the same workshop.