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A George III satinwood, parcel-gilt, tulipwood-banded and line-inlaid commode, of broken D-shaped outline, the eared radially veneered top with band of trailing foliage and gilt guilloche-carved edge above central frieze drawer with classical urn panel above oval panelled door with Greek Key border flanked by rams masks with laurel leaf swags and channelled and uprights carved with trailing bellflowers on reeded tapering legs with block feet, stamped Waring & Gillow Ltd. with label - 60½in. (154cm.) wide, 24½in. (62cm.) deep, 36in. (92cm) high.
The commode's antique Georgian form derived from a commode designed by Thomas Chippendale (d.1778) for the bedroom, created by Robert Adam, at Osterly Park, Middlesex in the 1770s. The latter, illustrated by Percy Macquoid, Age of Satinwood, 1906 (Fig.25) provided the inspiration for this commode, whose sacred-urn tablet was adapted from that of a table (Fig.71). The commode was invented by Messrs. Waring and Gillow, Oxford Street, as part of their 'Gillow Tradition' range, in reference to Messrs Gillow's leading role as furniture manufacturers in the late 18th century. The pattern was advertised in The Burlington Magazine, Dec. 1922 as a , 'Satinwood and gilt Adam's commode of our own design and production, richly veneered, handsomely carved and finished'. The elegant 'Adam' classical style, for which Messrs Gillow of London and Lancaster were famous in the 18th century, was one of the Georgian styles revived by the firm when their business expanded with the opening of new mills in the 1870s. The company merged with Messrs Waring of Liverpool around 1900, when the Adam/Chippendale was featured in some of the yachts and liners which they fitted out.
The commode's antique Georgian form derived from a commode designed by Thomas Chippendale (d.1778) for the bedroom, created by Robert Adam, at Osterly Park, Middlesex in the 1770s. The latter, illustrated by Percy Macquoid, Age of Satinwood, 1906 (Fig.25) provided the inspiration for this commode, whose sacred-urn tablet was adapted from that of a table (Fig.71). The commode was invented by Messrs. Waring and Gillow, Oxford Street, as part of their 'Gillow Tradition' range, in reference to Messrs Gillow's leading role as furniture manufacturers in the late 18th century. The pattern was advertised in The Burlington Magazine, Dec. 1922 as a , 'Satinwood and gilt Adam's commode of our own design and production, richly veneered, handsomely carved and finished'. The elegant 'Adam' classical style, for which Messrs Gillow of London and Lancaster were famous in the 18th century, was one of the Georgian styles revived by the firm when their business expanded with the opening of new mills in the 1870s. The company merged with Messrs Waring of Liverpool around 1900, when the Adam/Chippendale was featured in some of the yachts and liners which they fitted out.