Lot Essay
The bow-fronted commode is designed in the antique fashion popularised by Thomas Sheraton's Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793, and could be fitted with drawers, such as the closely related satinwood commode in the collection of Mrs. Robert Tritton, sold Christie's, Godmersham Park, 6 - 9 June 1983, lot 57.