Lot 142
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A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND SABICU SERPENTINE COMMODE
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A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND SABICU SERPENTINE COMMODE

THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED ROSEWOOD AND SABICU SERPENTINE COMMODE
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
The shaped rectangular quarter-veneered top, above a pair of doors between keeled angles, enclosing two shelves, with a shaped apron centred by a pierced rockwork mount, on gently splayed legs, the backboard with indistinct ink description '.../...St./Marylebone', remounted, the interior altered
32½ in. (82.5 cm.) high; 51½ in. (131 cm.) wide; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep.
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Lot Essay

The antique sarcophagus-scrolled commode is serpentined and ormolu-enriched in the French 'picturesque' manner, while its ribbon-banded top is parquetried in a Roman-mosaic with a lozenged compartment. Such 'commodes in the foreign taste' were advertised from the 1750s by the Tottenham Court Road workshops established by the ébéniste Pierre Langlois (d. 1765). Among related commodes was one, incorporating floral marquetry inlaid in rayed parquetry, that was formerly in the Leverhulme collection (P. Thornton and W. Rieder, 'Pierre Langlois, Ebéniste, Part 4, Connoisseur, April 1972, pp. 257-265, fig. 7).

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