CIRCA 1775, ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE

Details

A GEORGE III LACQUERED BRASS-MOUNTED PADOUK, SATINWOOD AND FUSTIC COMMODE
CIRCA 1775, ATTRIBUTED TO MAYHEW AND INCE
The interior of each cupboard with two adjustable shelves, the drawers cedar-lined
30 ½ in, (77.5 cm.) high, 46 ½ in. (118 cm.) wide, 21 ½ in. (54.5 cm.) deep

Provenance

With Mallett, London.

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Lot Essay

Features of this commode, suggest the authorship of Mayhew and Ince. The gadrooned moulding of the upper edge and the ribbon-tied reed moulding of the bottom edge are identical to those of a commode attributed to Mayhew and Ince, c. 1773 at The Lady Lever Art Gallery (See L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, p. 195, no. 22.

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