CIRCA 1800

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A PAIR OF GEORGE III KINGWOOD, ROSEWOOD, AMARANTH AND SATINWOOD COMMODES
CIRCA 1800
Each of outset form with spindle-fronted frieze drawer above a pair of paneled cupboard doors enclosing four drawers, flanked by corner cabinets, on turned feet
38 ½ in. (98 cm.) high, 34 in. (86 cm.) wide, 16 ½ in. (42 cm.) deep

Provenance

Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964.

Literature

Y. Hackenbroch, English furniture with some furniture of other countries in the Irwin Untermyer Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1958, p. lxiv, fig. 327, pl. 285.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Exceptionally refined, these cabinets are the work of a leading cabinet-maker, such as Seddon or George Simson (see C. Gilbert, 'Seddon, Sons & Shackleton,' Furniture History, 1997 and C. Gilbert, Pictorial Dictionary of Marked London Furniture 1700-1840, 1996). Salient features of both makers including the finely turned and reeded colonettes and the use of shaped panels and exotic timbers, particularly the choice of rich East Indian satinwood.

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