拍品 340
340
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A VENETIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT BOMBE COMMODE, painted overall with foliate sprays, birds and butterflies upon a yellow ground, the serpentine-fronted simulated siena marble top held within a ribbon-tied fasce border, the central foliate spray above a pair of serpentine-fronted drawers carved in relief with C-scrolls and foliate sprays and surmounted by scallop-shells between swollen foliate-trailed ribbon-tied fasce-angles, the bombé sides with similar foliate and rockwork C-scroll decoration issuing a poesie of flowers above a pierced, acanthus-wrapped C-scroll-shaped apron, on cabriole legs and scroll feet, minor restorations to top, with chalk inscription to one drawer 191, mid-18th Century

细节
A VENETIAN POLYCHROME-DECORATED AND PARCEL-GILT BOMBE COMMODE, painted overall with foliate sprays, birds and butterflies upon a yellow ground, the serpentine-fronted simulated siena marble top held within a ribbon-tied fasce border, the central foliate spray above a pair of serpentine-fronted drawers carved in relief with C-scrolls and foliate sprays and surmounted by scallop-shells between swollen foliate-trailed ribbon-tied fasce-angles, the bombé sides with similar foliate and rockwork C-scroll decoration issuing a poesie of flowers above a pierced, acanthus-wrapped C-scroll-shaped apron, on cabriole legs and scroll feet, minor restorations to top, with chalk inscription to one drawer 191, mid-18th Century
45½in. (115.5cm.) wide; 32¾in. (83cm.) high; 23½in. (60cm.) deep

拍品专文

This richly serpentined and japanned commode is framed by reeds within flower-festooned, ribbon-tied and water-embossed cartouches, and further enriched with cartouches incorporating webbed-wings and scallop-shells. Its Louis XV picturesque style derives from furniture engravings published in the 1750's by Jean-François Cuvillies (d.1768) and Johann Michael Hoppenhaupt II (d. circa 1780). However its curvaceous forms, exuberant ornament and polychromed decoration of birds, butterflies and flower-sprays is typical of the finest Venetian furniture produced in the mid-18th Century. While corresponding to commodes, such as that with yellow japanning, now exhibited at the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, its character relates in particular to an exotic chair from the Villa Pisani, Veneto, whose richly carved back displays a picturesque cartouche of dolphin and reeds supported on webbed-wings (see G. Mariacher, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, 1967, no. 196; and C. Alberici, Il Mobile Veneto, Milan, 1980, fig. 375)