FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY, POSSIBLY MUNICH

Commodes of related Baroque form with geometric parquetry inlay, identified as from Munich, and dated 1755, are illustrated in: B. Langer, Die Möbel der Schlösser Nymphenburg und SchleiBheim, Munich, 2000, pp. 146-149, figs. 41.1 to 41.12. Two commodes of Rococo rather than the Baroque form of the present example but also featuring brass and pewter inlaid cartouches, and from Munich, are in the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich (ibid., pp. 286-287, no. 124). A further commode with similar decoration, also attributed as Munich, is in H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Mobels: Spatbarock und Rokoko, Munich, 1983, no. 345. A pair of commodes of the latter Rococo model sold Sotheby's, London, 9 June 2004, lot 24 (£234,181 inc. premium). A closely comparable Baroque walnut serpentine commode with pewter-inlaid cartouches sold Christie's, London, 22 October 1981, lot 92. Further examples but with parquetry wood inlay include: one sold Christie's, London, 6 March 1980, lot 124 (£5,800 inc. premium) and another sold Sotheby's, Zurich, 5 June 1996, lot 293.