A PAIR OF NORTH EUROPEAN, LINE-INLAID AND PARCEL-GILT COMMODES

CIRCA 1790-1800, POSSIBLY GERMAN OR DANISH

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A PAIR OF NORTH EUROPEAN, LINE-INLAID AND PARCEL-GILT COMMODES
CIRCA 1790-1800, POSSIBLY GERMAN OR DANISH
Each with a white marble top with serpentine front above a conforming base with three drawers, with corner quarter fluted columns with corinthian capitals, on paterae-headed fluted tapering legs, one stand of a later date
35½ in. (90 cm.) high, 49½ in. (126 cm.) wide, 25 in. (63 cm.) deep (2)

Lot Essay

The robust neo-classicism of these impressive commodes, together with their distinctive aprons of gilt scrolling garlands, possibly point to a Danish origin. Smaller commodes with similar gilt swag-hung aprons, from Altona, a region near Hamburg formerly part of Denmark, are illustrated in A. I. Kratz, Altonaer Möbel, Hamburg, 1988, pp. 250-1.

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