LATE 18TH CENTURY, REMOUNTED

Details

A Dutch ormolu-mounted kingwood and satinwood-crossbanded bombe commode
Late 18th Century, remounted
The later rouge marble top above three drawers, with a later paper property label for Princess Margaret
31½ in. (80 cm.) high; 46 in. (117 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (60 cm.) deep

Provenance

Placed in the Bathroom of the Private Apartment of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon at Kensington Palace.

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Lot Essay

The marble-topped and sarcophagus-scrolled commode has a serpentine and Grecian-scrolled base in the 1770s antique manner, while its English ormolu bas-reliefs are displayed in lozenge-parquetry mosaics within Grecian-black ribbon-banded and hollow-cornered tablets. The sacred veil-draped and ram-headed urns, which accompany the laurelled and beribboned medallions of these reliefs, reflect the Etruscan or 'Columbarium' vase fashion promoted by the court architect Robert Adam and adopted by Amsterdam furniture-makers (N. Goodison, The Victoria & Albert Museum's Collection of Metal-Work Pattern books, pp.1-30; and R.J. Baarsen, Nederlandse Meublen, Zwolle, 1993, p.86).

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