Sale 6522
London
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29 November 2001
Price realised
GBP 69,750
Estimate
A GEORGE III SATINWOOD, MAHOGANY AND POLYCHROME-DECORATED SERPENTINE COMMODE Crossbanded overall, the shaped top decorated with a half-patera to the rear edge surrounded by ribbon-tied trophy medallions linked by swags of flowers, the edge of the top banded with sprays of laurel linked with acanthus husks, above a frieze drawer and a pair of oval-panelled doors enclosing a shelf, flanked by shaped-panelled doors enclosing two shelves, with half-column floral-painted amaranth uprights on turned tapering feet, redecorated 38 in. (96.5 cm.) high; 61¾ in. (157 cm.) wide; 23¾ in. (60.5 cm.) deep
Provenance
The late Miss P. D. A. Beresford, Hoby House, Hoby, Leicestershire. Bought from Partridge, London, 27 June 1986 for £75,000.
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A commode of related form, but with inlaid satinwood panels between fluted column uprights, formerly in the Moller Collection at Thorncombe Park, Surrey, was sold anonymously, Sotheby's London, 18 November 1994, lot 137.
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Pre-Lot Text
THE PROPERTY OF THE EXECUTORS OF THE LATE SIR EMMANUEL KAYE C.B.E. (LOTS 35-70)
The senior curator of the Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum on Noguchi’s work in relation to light, physics and Futurism
The jeweller Frédéric Boucheron opened his first shop in the arcades of the Palais Royal, Paris; more than 160 years later, the maison he founded is a world leader