POSSIBLY BY MAYHEW AND INCE, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ORIGINALLY FITTED

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY SERPENTINE COMMODE
POSSIBLY BY MAYHEW AND INCE, THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, PROBABLY ORIGINALLY FITTED
With curved back, the moulded edge above four long drawers with velvet-lined brushing-slide between fluted angles flanked by crossbanded and ebony-strung doors, each enclosing three shelves, on later reeded tapering bun feet, the right cupboard locked
34½ in. (87.5 cm.) high; 58¼ in. (148 cm.) wide; 23 in. (58.5 cm.) deep

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This lot is offered without reserve. No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

The pier-commode-table with French-fashioned corner-cupboards and concealed dressing writing slide, is elegantly serpentined in a cupid-bow with Pompeian reed-clustered columnar corners. Grecian 'Etruscan' black ribbons frame its beautifully-figured mahogany tablets and poetic laurels wreath the flowered and 'Etruscan' pearled medallions of its handles. This ormolu pattern also features on a sarcophagus-scrolled chest-of-drawers on stand, which can be identified with the Golden Square firm of Mayhew and Ince as its flute-inlaid ornament is comparable to that found on the firm's commodes supplied for Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire in the late 1770s (H. Roberts, 'Furniture for the 4th Duke of Marlborough', Furniture History, 1994, fig. 29).

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