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A GEORGE III POLYCHROME-PAINTED, PARCEL-GILT SATINWOOD, KINGWOOD AND TULIPWOOD-CROSSBANDED COMMODE

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£ 8 190
Auction dateClassic
31.10.2023 12:00UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
Event location
United Kingdom, London
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ID 1057458
Lot 181 | A GEORGE III POLYCHROME-PAINTED, PARCEL-GILT SATINWOOD, KINGWOOD AND TULIPWOOD-CROSSBANDED COMMODE
The bow-breakfront top with a green-painted border with bell husks and bulbs, enclosing a semi-circular panel painted with a bird above a nest of chicks flanked by trailing flowers, above a bracket with scrolling foliate motifs issuing flowers and vines, each side similarly painted, with three graduated mahogany-lined drawers centred by an escutcheon flanked by painted floral swags and silver-plated loop handles, flanked by cross-banded pilasters with gilt stiff-leaf capitals and bases, the top drawer enclosing a kingwood-banded baize-lined hinged-top slide flanked on each side by a pen recess and a well, the concave doors centred by oval medallions painted with stylised urns and a classical figure bearing a flowering cornucopia, on tapering square feet with leaftip-painted collars, later painted
34 in. (86 cm.) high; 563/4 in. (144 cm.) wide; 26 in. (66 cm.) deep
Medium:Giltwood, Silver plate, Satinwood
Historical era:Georgian period
Place of origin:England
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
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