A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SERPENTINE COMMODE

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Los 94 | A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SERPENTINE COMMODE
A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED MAHOGANY SERPENTINE COMMODE

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN COBB, CIRCA 1760-65

The top with moulded edge above two short and two long graduated drawers between female mask-headed angles and on hairy hoof feet, with wavy apron and mounted with later pierced foliate handles and escutcheons, the drawers with concave quarter-filets, inscribed twice to the inside in pencil 'Wm Valter (?)...September 26, 1791'

34 1/4 in. (85 cm.) high; 55 1/2 in. (141 cm.) wide; 26 3/4 in. (68 cm.) deep





Provenance

By repute (according to Partridge), the Earls of Craven, Coombe Abbey, Warwickshire.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 June 1985, lot 90.

With Partridge Fine Arts, London (exhibited summer 1986).

Acquired by Lord & Lady Weinstock from the above.



Literature

Partridge, Recent Acquisitions, 1986, no. 20.

L. Wood, Catalogue of Commodes, London, 1994, p. 52, fig. 8.



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