Lot Essay
The chest-of-drawers, with serpentined and cut-cornered front, relates to 'French Commode Table' patterns in Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director, London, 1754, pl. LXIX.
A related serpentine-fronted commode, with reed-edged top and richly carved bracket feet, is likely to have been supplied for Erthig, Denbighshire, North Wales, by John Cobb (d. 1778) of St. Martin's Lane, cabinet-maker to King George III (P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. II, p. 49, fig. 49).
A related serpentine-fronted commode, with reed-edged top and richly carved bracket feet, is likely to have been supplied for Erthig, Denbighshire, North Wales, by John Cobb (d. 1778) of St. Martin's Lane, cabinet-maker to King George III (P. Macquoid and R. Edwards, The Dictionary of English Furniture, London, rev. ed., 1954, vol. II, p. 49, fig. 49).