THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY

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A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BREAKFRONT COMMODE
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY
Crossbanded and inlaid with boxwood and ebony lines, fitted with nine drawers enclosed by three panelled doors, on recessed panel square-tapered legs with block feet, probably previously with a superstructure
35 in. (89 cm.) high; 58½ in. (49 cm.) wide; 24 in. (61 cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The commode, with concealed chest-of-drawers, reflects the George III French style introduced in the 1760s, and its tripartite and column-cornered facade displays richly figured mahogany in French-fashioned hollow-cornered tablets. French taste is also reflected in the altar-hollowed capitals of its plinth-supported and hermed legs. The latters sunk and arch-headed tablets relate to those of a tripartite-fronted Chippendale dressing-table in the Lady Lever Art Gallery (A. Coleridge, Chippendale Furniture, London, 1968 fig. 165). The present commode also relates to a piano-concealing commode bearing the date 1777 (L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, Leeds, 1994 p.120).

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