A LATE GEORGE III ROSEWOOD, SATINWOOD AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED BREAKFRONT COMMODE**

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A LATE GEORGE III ROSEWOOD, SATINWOOD AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED BREAKFRONT COMMODE**

CIRCA 1790

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A LATE GEORGE III ROSEWOOD, SATINWOOD AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED BREAKFRONT COMMODE**
CIRCA 1790
The crossbanded top decorated with an entwined ribbon and flowerhead border, above a pair of oval panelled doors decorated with cloud-borne iconographical nymphs, enclosing a shelf, flanked on each side by a conforming door enclosing a shelf, on square tapering legs and feet, with paper label on the reverse inscribed in ink '6,' one door impressed '3865,' previously with further divisions in the cupboards
34¾ in. (88 cm.) high; 56 in. (142 cm.) wide; 21 in. (53.5 cm.) deep

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拍品专文

The fashion for such colorful Roman medallions depicting emblematical female figures was popular around 1780, and features in engravings published in 1788 in Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co's The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterers Guide, and in Thomas Shearer's London Book of Prices.

A pair of corner cupboards exhibit closely related figural panels painted on a rosewood ground within a satinwood surround (the reverse of the present veneers). The cupboards, one of the earliest acquisitions by Viscount Leverhulme, are discussed in L. Wood, A Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, no. 32, pp. 260-263. Corner cupboards were often made to be en suite with commodes.