A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BOMBE COMMODE

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细节

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY BOMBE COMMODE
Crossbanded overall in kingwood, the shaped top inlaid with a circle, above three graduated drawers between keeled angles, the sides inlaid with ovals, above a shaped apron, on slightly splayed feet, with Oxford depository label to the reverse printed 'H. W (?) Mersley', the handles apparently original, the top drawer previously fitted, restorations to the feet
33 in. (84 cm.) high; 43 in. (109 cm.) wide; 25½ in. (65 cm.) deep

来源

H. Mersley.

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No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

拍品专文

The commode's elegantly serpentined form relates to that of the commode supplied in 1772 for Corsham Court, Wiltshire by the court cabinet-maker, John Cobb (d. 1778). A bold effect is created by its parquetry of beribboned tablets and medallions after the George III 'Roman' fashion of the late 1770, that Messrs A. Hepplewhite & Co. illustrated a decade later in their Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Guide, 1788. The medallions, featured on the top and sides, are echoed by the drawers' fine flame-figured mahogany being unfolded from the centres. Its beribboned ornament, combined with handsome patteraed handles, relates to that of a bedroom Pembroke table that was supplied by John Linnell to accompany a bed that was designed by Robert Adam in 1779 for Osterley Park, Middlesex (H. Hayward and P. Kirkham, William and John Linnell, London, 1980, vol. II, fig. 305).