Sale 2504
New York
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15 April 2011
Price realised
USD 20,000
Estimate
A GERMAN WALNUT AND MARQUETRY COMMODE BAYREUTH OR BERLIN, CIRCA 1760 The rectangular top above a tapering front with four drawers mounted with gilt repoussé foliate back-plates and drawer pulls and escutcheons, inlaid with scroll, leaf and strapwork marquetry, the drawers lined with blue marbled paper 33./12 in (83 cm.) high; 46½ in. (65 cm.) wide; 25¼ in. (65 cm.) deep
Provenance
Anonoymous Sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 June 2000, lot 14.
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This commode with its unusual bombé-shaped outline and inwardly-curved sides and fine marquetry strapwork can be compared to examples from Bayreuth-Berlin (H. Kreisel, Die Kunst des deutschen Möbels, Part II, Munich, 1970, fig. 794).
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