A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED INDIAN ROSEWOOD, PADOUK, FRUITWOOD AND LABURNUM COMMODE

Lot 619
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Lot 619 | A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED INDIAN ROSEWOOD, PADOUK, FRUITWOOD AND LABURNUM COMMODE
Valeur estimée
$ 120 000 – 180 000
A GEORGE III ORMOLU-MOUNTED INDIAN ROSEWOOD, PADOUK, FRUITWOOD AND LABURNUM COMMODE

ATTRIBUTED TO PIERRE LANGLOIS, THE MOUNTS POSSIBLY BY DOMINIQUE JEAN, CIRCA 1765

The serpentine top with quarter-veneered trellis parquetry above a bombe case with a frieze drawer mounted with scrolling foliate handles over a pair of cabinet doors veneered in satine opening to shelves and with transverse ormolu mounts of a central urn on a rocaille emitting lush floral vinery sprays atop a shaped balcony with a putto and a peacock, the angles with ormolu chutes draped with garlands, the sides with lush flowering urns within conforming borders, the underside and rear of carcass with a black wash, remains of a black painted label inscribed ...W/401, with printed and inscribed Ann and Gordon Getty Collection inventory label

35 in. (89 cm.) high, 45 3/4 in. (116.2 cm.) wide, 21 in. (53.4 cm.) deep





Provenance

Possibly commissioned by Ambrose Isted for Ecton Hall, Northamptonshire and inherited with the house in 1881 by Charles William Hamilton Sotheby (1820-1887).

Thence possibly by descent to Major General F.E. Sotheby, but not included in the sale of his collection, Sotheby's, London, 14 October 1955.

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 19 June 1981, lot 84.

Acquired from Partridge, London, by Ann and Gordon Getty in 1985.





Literature

Partridge Yearbook, 1983.



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