PROBABLY GENOA, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A NORTH ITALIAN WALNUT AND FRUITWOOD MARQUETRY COMMODE
PROBABLY GENOA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
The rectangular top centred by an octagonal medallion depicting Venus and Cupid, above a leaf-tip inlaid shaped cornice and a panelled frieze with a drawer fitted with dividers and decorated with foliage-filled vases and scrolling acanthus, above two further drawers inlaid sans traverse with an octagonal medallion depicting a Bacchic mask, the sides decorated similarly, the uprights decorated with foliate trails and terminating in tapering feet, the top drawer inscribed in pencil 'Re Sahmder' (?) and with blue-bordered paper label inscribed in ink '..5167 300250', minor losses to the veneers
35 in. (89 cm.) high; 49 in. (125 cm.) wide; 23¼ in. (59 cm.) deep

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拍品专文

This finely inlaid commode, executed in figured quarter-veneered panels of walnut centred by a bacchic mask and framed by elegant uprights of 'grotesques', relates to the work of the celebrated Milanese cabinet-maker Giuseppe Maggiolini (1793-1814). However, this example differs from his work and could have been executed by a follower in Genoa. Identical uprights, as well as the distinctive bacchic masks feature on a Genoese commode which is illustrated in L. Caumont Caimi, L'Ebanisteria Genovese del Settecento, Parma, 1995, ill. 246. It furthermore features the same upswept foliate moulding just under the top, as well as similar large scale volutes to the frieze. The marquetry of the tapering feet is identical, but the most striking similarity must be the distinctive bacchic mask.