Lot 150
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A LATE GEORGE II PADOUK SERPENTINE COMMODE
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A LATE GEORGE II PADOUK SERPENTINE COMMODE

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN COBB, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A LATE GEORGE II PADOUK SERPENTINE COMMODE
ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN COBB, MID-18TH CENTURY
The crossbanded top with eight quartered fields and a moulded edge, fitted with three similarly quartered crossbanded drawers, with a carrying-handle to either side, between serpentine angles, terminating in splayed bracket feet with foliate sabots, later handles, escutcheons and brackets
35 in. (88.5 cm.) high; 45 in. (114 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep
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Lot Essay

The antique sarcophagus-scrolled commode is serpentined in the French 'picturesque' manner. Its reed-banded top is parquetried in a Roman-mosaic with a central lozenged compartment such as appears on a commode attributed to the court cabinet-maker, John Cobb (d. 1778) of St Martin's Lane (in the possession of Moss Harris & Sons in the 1940s and sold Christie's, London, 24 November 2005, lot 92). Its poetic laurel-wreath ormolu enrichments correspond to the 'large handsome wrought furniture' described by Cobb in 1766 on a serpentined 'commode chest of drawers' supplied for Alscot Park, Warwickshire (L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, p. 51, fig. 35).

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