A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BURR YEW, PADOUK AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE

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Lot 26 | A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BURR YEW, PADOUK AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE
A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED BURR YEW, PADOUK AND MARQUETRY SERPENTINE COMMODE

BY INCE & MAYHEW, CIRCA 1765 - 75

The eared top crossbanded and chequer-lined and centred by a large engraved sunflower patera above a slide with simulated beading, flanked by rosette blocks, the doors similarly crossbanded and chequer-lined displaying a ribbon-tied and wrapped oak leaf garland flanked by fluted pilasters with guilloche chutes and enclosing four oak-fronted and marbled paper-lined slides, the left side with a two-handled urn within a wreath, the right with a hart within a wreath, on bracket feet with brass and leather castors, red wash to secondary timbers and laminated blocks behind the feet, wear to original ebonised mouldings

32 1⁄4 in. (82 cm.) high; 53 3⁄4 in. (136 cm.) wide; 22 3⁄4 in. (58 cm.) deep





Provenance

Perhaps commissioned by the 2nd Earl and Countess of Shelburne for Shelburne House, Berkeley Square, London.

The Collection of Basil Dighton, circa 1922.

The Collection of Cecil and Hilda Lewis.



Literature

M. Jourdain, English Decoration and Furniture of the later XVIIIth Century, London and New York 1922, p. 181, fig. 283.



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