A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED SABICU, ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODES

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (Lots 105 - 123)

细节

A PAIR OF GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED SABICU, ROSEWOOD AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODES
Each with an eared canted top centred by a basket of flowers with butterflies, on a sabicu ground within a broad rosewood border of entwined laurel above a pair of doors, each inlaid with a concave cut-cornered panel centred by an urn with flowers with conforming sides, the corners of the doors with swirling rosettes, with keeled angles, one commode with pierced cabouchon and husk-trail mounts,the other with C-scroll and acanthus angle mounts, above a shaped apron and on splayed bracket feet with pierced C-scroll and acanthus cabouchon sabots, restorations and some re-engraving, mounted differently, minor variations in size
41½ in. (105.5. cm.) wide; 31¾ in. (80.5 cm.) high; 22 in. (56 cm.) deep (2)

来源

Harman Grisewood, Esq., Daylesford House, Worcestershire (acquired in the 1850s).
Thence by descent to Mrs. Eileen Hoare, O.B.E. until sold in these Rooms, 24 November 1966, lot 125 (the right-hand commode only).

出版

L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, p. 169, fig. 158 (the right-hand commode).

拍品专文

The laurel-wreathed border of the serpentined top frames a trompe l'oeil flower-basket, while the doors' hollow-cornered and ray-figured tablets display husk-festooned flower-vases. These plinth-supported krater-vases evolved from French 17th Century patterns. There are very similar veil-draped vases inlaid on the sides of a chest-of-drawers with basket-inlaid top that bears a label dated 1886 and may have been in the collection of Sir Josceline Fitzroy Bagot,Bt. (d.1913) at Levens Hall, Westmorland, before being acquired in 1915 by the 1st Lord Leverhulme. This commode and its related group is discussed by Lucy Wood in Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, pp.166-170.