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A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED FUSTIC, SATINWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE
A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED FUSTIC, SATINWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE
A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED FUSTIC, SATINWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE
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A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED FUSTIC, SATINWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE
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A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED FUSTIC, SATINWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN COBB, CIRCA 1770

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A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED FUSTIC, SATINWOOD, AMARANTH AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE
ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN COBB, CIRCA 1770
the top with a floral-trellis ground, the top and doors inlaid with finely inlaid floral bouquets within oval medallions, the sides mounted with berried-vine cast lifting handles on satinwood ovals, and with pierced angle mounts and sabots, with scalloped apron; the reverse inscribed ‘PP/ Item 460/ catalogue’ and inscribed ‘2859’ in yellow paint, also with an 'Art Treasures' exhibition label
35 in. (88.9 cm.) high, 45 ¼ in. (115 cm.) wide, 22 in. (55.9 cm.) deep
来源
With Arthur Ackermann & Son, New York.
Acquired from the above by Mr. and Mrs. Leslie R. Samuels, New York, in 1950.
Until sold from The Samuels Collection (intended for auction, but the collection was privately bought in its entirety. See catalogue: Sotheby's, New York, 2-3 October 1981, lot 460).
Acquired by Imelda Romualdez Marcos (b. 1929) from the above.
With Stair and Company, London.
Acquired by Irene Roosevelt Aitken from the above at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair, on 23 June 1993.
出版
A. Winchester, 'Living with Antiques', The Magazine Antiques, June 1962, p. 616 (shown in situ in the Samuels drawing room).
A. Winchester, ed., Living With Antiques: A Treasury of Private Homes in America, New York, 1963, p. 112 (shown in situ in the Samuels drawing room).
Art Treasures Exhibition, New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1967, no. 237 (lent by Leslie R. Samuels).
J. and M. Miller, The Antiques Directory: Furniture, Boston, 1985, p. 257, pl. A2.
展览
New York, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Art Treasures Exhibition, 24 May-7 June 1967, no. 237 (illustrated; lent by Leslie R. Samuels).
New York, Winter Antiques Show, 23-31 January 1993 (with Stair, London; cover of the Stair catalogue).

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Elizabeth Seigel
Elizabeth Seigel Vice President, Specialist, Head of Private and Iconic Collections
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拍品专文


The celebrated St. Martin's Lane cabinet-maker John Cobb continued the business after his partner William Vile retired in 1764. In the spirit of newly fashionable classicism, he began to produce a series of commodes and other furniture in marquetry veneers and largely derived from French patterns.

The serpentine commode, featuring delicate rose sprays within ovals embellished with ribbon-tied husk garlands relates closely to the 'extra neat Inlaid Commode…with brass Ornaments' and matching stands supplied to Paul Methuen for Corsham Court in 1774. A princely sum of £63.5.3 was paid for the commode. Others that relate, what Lucy Wood calls the 'Methuen group of commodes', are discussed in her Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, no. 7, pp. 88-97. Other Cobb features include the trellis pattern top, and the iconic wreath-pattern pull which features on other commodes in the Aitken collection. Diagonally-oriented geometric patterns outlining large ovals appear on other pieces attributed to Cobb from the 1770s, including the pair of tables from Kenwood (later in the Earl of Mansfield's collection at Scone Palace) (see C. Streeter, 'Marquetry Tables from Cobb's Workshop', Furniture History, 1974, pl. 30A). Another table from the group was sold, Christie's, New York, 14 October 2004, lot 165 ($57,360).

The commode makes its appearance in New York in the mid-20th century when it formed part of the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie R. Samuels housed in the Park Avenue triplex. In 1981, a collection catalogue was produced with the intention to sell the collection in its entirety but the sale was cancelled as Imelda Marcos (b. 1929) purchased everything before the sale could be held. Mr. Samuels was a retailer who ran I. Miller, and later his wife's family-run department store in Hartford, Connecticut, which was sold to the May company for a reputed $40 million. Philanthropists and music lovers, the couple formed a foundation in their name which provides funds for the arts, primarily Lincoln Center.

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