IN THE MANNER OF JOHN COBB, CIRCA 1770

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A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, ROSEWOOD, SYCAMORE AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE
IN THE MANNER OF JOHN COBB, CIRCA 1770
The shaped rectangular top centred by a tulipwood framed oval and with a ribbon-inlaid border, above two doors each with a bouquet of flowers within a tulipwood frame and enclosing a shelf, the sides with further oval panels, on splayed legs, restorations, originally with handles to the sides, the veneers on top relaid on plywood and the ribbon marquetry possibly added
34 in. (87 cm.) high; 41¼ in. (105 cm.) wide; 23½ in. (60 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The commode's general form relates to one made in the 1760s for Thomas Villiers, Baron Hyde of Hindon, later 1st Earl of Clarendon (d. 1786), and attributed to the Court cabinet-maker, John Cobb of St. Martin's Lane (L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, pp. 88-90, figs. i-vii). The Clarendon commode, now in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, also features medallions of beribboned bouquets in hollow-cornered tablets. It belongs to a group of related commodes which have all been attributed to Cobb on the basis of comparison with a commode by him at Corsham Court, supplied to Paul Methuen in 1772 (ibid., figs. 75-77). Several of the commodes in the group share the same distinctive reeded carrying-handles with oak-leaf backplates that are associated with the work of Cobb and seen on other commodes by him, including the Alscot Park commode, supplied by Cobb in 1766 (ibid., figs. 82, 83, 85, 91 and 35).

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