A DUTCH ROCOCO WALNUT AND OLIVEWOOD COMMODE

SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY, FERRARA

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A DUTCH ROCOCO WALNUT AND OLIVEWOOD COMMODE
Second half 18th Century, Ferrara
The banded and quarter-veneered serpentine molded top above a conforming case with narrow frieze drawer and two larger drawers, the drawer divides molded and the angles rounded, the waved apron over cabriole legs with hoof feet, with the modern printed for Romano Romani Trasporti, Florence, inscribed S. HECTOR ARANCIBLA IASO/EMBAJADOR DE CHILE/VIA BRUNO BUOZZI 82/ROMA, lacking handles
34¼in. (87cm.) high, 50in. (127cm.) wide, 25¼in. (64cm.) deep

来源

Hector Arancibla Iaso, Chilean Ambassador to Italy, Rome.

拍品专文

This commode relates to a group of Ferrarese pieces, all with serpentine fronts and rounded angles above waved aprons and with quite similar cabriole legs with broad knees and squared hoof feet. Each is further banded in walnut and some have olivewood panels to the drawer fronts, sides or tops. See, for example, one illustrated in G. Manni, Mobili in Emilia, Modena, 1986, fig. 268, p. 312. Further closely comparable examples include those found in G. Manni, Mobili Antichi in Emilia Romagna, Modena 1993, figs. 258-259, p. 126, and fig. 311, p. 150.