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拍品專文
A 'Dressing' commode, with flame-figured veneer and of the same pattern as the present lot, is discussed by R.W. Symonds in 'Provincial Cabinet-Making in the 18th century, Antiques Review, June-August, 1951, p. 22, fig. 17 (sold from the Samuel Messer collection, in these Rooms, 5 December 1991, lot 118).
While the latter was enriched with ormolu pilasters in the French manner, the reeded borders of this commode are japanned antique black in the 'Etruscan' fashion popularised in the 1770s by the architect Robert Adam. Another related commode, also with ebonised borders as well as mosiaced tablets, with hollowed corners rather than rounded ends, was acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1937 (D. FitzGerald, Georgian Furniture, London, 1969, no. 99).
A group of related commodes are attributed to the Marlborough cabinet-maker Henry Hill (d. 1778) (L. Wood, 'Furniture for Lord Delaval', Furniture History, 1990, pp. 198-222; and L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, no. 4).
While the latter was enriched with ormolu pilasters in the French manner, the reeded borders of this commode are japanned antique black in the 'Etruscan' fashion popularised in the 1770s by the architect Robert Adam. Another related commode, also with ebonised borders as well as mosiaced tablets, with hollowed corners rather than rounded ends, was acquired by the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1937 (D. FitzGerald, Georgian Furniture, London, 1969, no. 99).
A group of related commodes are attributed to the Marlborough cabinet-maker Henry Hill (d. 1778) (L. Wood, 'Furniture for Lord Delaval', Furniture History, 1990, pp. 198-222; and L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, no. 4).